Inability
The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
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Inability Quotations
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde
Inability Translations
inability in French is impuissance
inability in Norwegian is manglende evne
inability in Spanish is incapacidad
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