I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to… — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant… — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“Sadly but, perhaps, not altogether unexpectedly this society has had very limited success in achieving what is supposed to be the justification… — Charles Le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. — Harold Nicolson 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
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation. — George Takei Copy Share Image
We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Copy Share Image
