Capacity Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Cunning
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
