Inability Quotes - Page 2

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

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.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.