Top 50 Incompetent Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Incompetent Quotes from famous people such as Rupert Sheldrake, Charles Murray, Andrew Johnson, Steve Hilton, Liam Fox, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Rupert Sheldrake
There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.
Charles Murray
I feel incompetent to perform duties… which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson
Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.
Steve Hilton
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour’s economic policies were a national security liability.
Liam Fox
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
Mstislav Rostropovich
It’s long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.
Jeremy Denk
Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation’s hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
Brendan I. Koerner
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.
George Wallace
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don’t know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It’s the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.
Rush Limbaugh
The fact remains that I am a very artless and incompetent writer.
Akshaye Khanna
By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with ‘education.’
Ivan Illich
I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.
Juan Cole
Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It’s fine, it’s your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child’s or your friend’s career.
Vivek Agnihotri
Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
Raghuram Rajan
Donald Trump’s mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he’s an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice – by a newspaper editor and a party leader – over allegations of dishonesty.
Owen Jones
Incompetent and relentless are the worst combination of qualities.
H. Jon Benjamin
It’s the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
Campbell Brown
Asking for help doesn’t mean your doctor is incompetent; rather, it should increase your faith in his or her abilities and humility.
Leana S. Wen
I’m an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don’t Buy.
Timothy Noah
Like all young reporters – brilliant or hopelessly incompetent – I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits – the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
Russell Baker
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.
Peter Higgs
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed… but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey
This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he’s being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.
Martha Nussbaum
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it’s able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.
Rush Limbaugh
If there’s anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it’s an incompetent stupid action comedy. It’s not so bad it’s good. It’s so bad it’s nothing else but bad.
Roger Ebert
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to me.
James Veitch
While the Obama White House is completely incompetent and weak, they know how to spin everyday Americans.
Richard Grenell
I would rather have a competent extremist than an incom

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.
Leon Jaworski
I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough – but I don’t think he’s presidential. I think he’s incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I’m nervous as an American.
Neil Sedaka
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. Peter
I don’t know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn’t want to learn an instrument – because I couldn’t have been that incompetent!
Duncan Jones
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
Bryce Dallas Howard
There is a power in public opinion in this country – and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers – which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren
Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don’t read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for ‘likes’ on a page, though the ideas for it may start there.
Hozier
I’d got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
Michael Palin
I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.
Leo Varadkar
Besides, I’m fairly incompetent. I can’t play that fast.
Benmont Tench
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation.
Oriana Fallaci
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.
Raghuram Rajan
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
Maureen Reagan
If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
Rahul Gandhi
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
People think that, somehow, size makes you uncoordinated or incompetent. There is a lot of size discrimination out there, and I see the difference in the way people treated me when I was 360 pounds versus how they treat me when I’m 290 – from the industry to day-to-day people on the street.
Omar Benson Miller
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
Harry Reasoner
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
Emile Durkheim
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn’t fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
Luke Ford