#incapable

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#anger #being #every #feeling #good

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#differ #environment #equanimity #even #expressing

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. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#answer #ask #because #becoming #ethics

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#beyond #completely #european #european governments #failed

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#carefree #explains #free state #happy #houses

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #competent #incapable #insecurity #invariably

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#hits #i #i think #incapable #just

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #incapable #me #memoir #publisher