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Quotes About Incapacity

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
~ Idries Shah
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
~ Idries Shah
La codicia os daña: la generosidad os ayuda. Por eso se ha dicho: "La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad".
~ Idries Shah
La codicia te daña: la generosidad te ayuda. Por eso se ha dicho: 'La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad'.
~ Idries Shah
La codicia te daña: la generosidad te ayuda. Es por esto que se ha dicho: "La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad.
~ Idries Shah
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
To respect everything one is supposed to respect; to protest nothing; never to be inconvenienced by self-distrust; never to be enmeshed in obsession, tortured by incapacity, poisoned by resentment, driven by anger . . . life just unraveling for the Swede like a fluffy ball of yarn.
~ Philip Roth
A incapacidade de contactar com a realidade é a característica de toda a «arte» americana. Qualquer semelhança entre a arte americana e a natureza americana é pura coincidência, mas isso acontece apenas porque a nação, no seu conjunto, não tem contacto com a realidade.
~ John Kennedy Toole
And, hence, to manage it. For if, as Thucydides warned two thousand years earlier, words in crises can lose their meaning, leaving in the "ability to see all sides of a question [an] incapacity to act on any,"82
~ John Lewis Gaddis
Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.
~ Marc Levy
but the pleasures that we have chosen can be a long way off if their advent is certain and if, while we await them, we can give ourselves over in the meantime to an idle seeking to attract and to an incapacity for love.
~ Marcel Proust
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
From this result mental weakness, general incapacity, and unfitness for hard work.
~ Unknown
La civilización ha desnaturalizado así al animal que somos para transformarnos en observadores del mundo al precio de una deplorable incapacidad para olerlo y degustarlo. Así es como nos apartamos cada vez más de lo real para contentarnos con gozar de las imágenes que lo representan.
~ Michel Onfray
Lo que me atormenta es mi propia ignorancia y mi incapacidad. En Ispahán aprenderé a ayudar a aquellos por los que ahora no puedo hacer nada.
~ Noah Gordon
incapacity to commit oneself to any value system beyond one supplying self-serving needs usually indicates severe narcissistic pathology. The
~ Unknown