Incapable Quotes

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.