"The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes."
Read quote
7 likes
Weakness quotes
Weakness
1.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Weakness
Browse quotes that often appear alongside weakness — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Weakness quotes (page 9 of 62)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair."
Read quote
7 likes
"Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?"
Read quote
7 likes
"But borrowing strength builds weakness."
Read quote
7 likes
"We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else."
Read quote
7 likes
"The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory."
Read quote
7 likes
"More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray."
Read quote
7 likes
"Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it."
Read quote
7 likes
"Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses."
Read quote
7 likes
"There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term."
Read quote
7 likes
"Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble."
Read quote
7 likes
"Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know."
Read quote
7 likes
"Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness"
Read quote
6 likes
"Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one."
Read quote
6 likes
"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness."
Read quote
6 likes
"Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong."
Read quote
6 likes
"Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London."
Read quote
6 likes
"You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses."
Read quote
6 likes
"It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses."
Read quote
6 likes
"He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine."
Read quote
6 likes