They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
I'm terrible at solving things. I'm really bad and haven't got any sort of lateral thinking capacity. I am your perfect audience… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones. — Jesse Itzler Copy Share Image
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
North Carolina's lack of sustainable natural gas reserves or production capacity exemplify the reasons I support the development of an additional interstate… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and… — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image