Capable Quotes

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The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable… — Erich Fromm
Joy, feeling oneâ€™s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the… — Maria Montessori
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such… — David Dark
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions — Baron de Montesquieu
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. — Baron de Montesquieu
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions… — John F. Kennedy
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they… — Eric Hoffer
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… — Marcel Proust
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into… — Aristotle
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him… — William Penn
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too… — Rebecca West
Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside,… — Rajneesh
Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied. — Laozi
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he… — Aldous Huxley
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself. — Andre Gide
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. — Andre Gide

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