Capacity Quotes · Page 48

The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society…

— Barry Eichengreen

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the…

— Emma Goldman

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and…

— Philip Yancey

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:…

— Rowan Williams

The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This…

— Michael Dowd

What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such…

— Cynthia Ozick

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual…

— Richard Louv

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just…

— Vandana Shiva

Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name.…

— Anna Halprin

Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning…

— Ray Lankester

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to…

— Bruce Mau

Some people are more talented than others. Some are more educationally privileged than others. But we all have the capacity to be…

— Peter Koestenbaum

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying…

— Charles Babbage

The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry.…

— Derek Bok

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

— Jamais Cascio

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

— William Godwin

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still…

— Tucker Carlson

To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational,…

— Tom Atlee

The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their…

— Laozi

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's…

— Nate Powell

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control,…

— Daniel Tammet

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake…

— Thomas Merton

Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that…

— Nancy Chodorow