Inability quotes
182 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself."
"The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window."
"I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema."
"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist."
"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
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"Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment."
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
"What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present"
"Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still."
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
"Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three."
"We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent."
"One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help."
"The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable."
"To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror."
"I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice."
"Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel."
"The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember."
"The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history"
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap."
"Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment."
"Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything."
"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
"The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . ."
"Hell is the inability to love."
