Capable Quotes

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I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have… — Simone Weil
There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and… — Eric Hoffer
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. — Henry Fielding
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out. — Carl Jung
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet… — Gustave Le Bon
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only… — Mairead Corrigan
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of… — Paul Bourget
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as… — Simone Weil
I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then… — Arthur Blank
Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to, knowing… — Mary Kingsley
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. — Oscar Peterson
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of… — Thomas Berry
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what… — Haim Ginott
There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable. — James Monroe
Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are… — B. C. Forbes
Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making… — Benjamin Franklin
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -… — Richard Dawkins
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under… — Richard Dawkins

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