Inability Quotes - Page 5

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.

The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.

When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my inabilities in the way of thought are inabilities of the universe. I therefore define truth as the system of my limitations, and leave absolute truth for those who are better equipped.

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves