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Capacities Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than…
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
- The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they…
- It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding…
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
More Capacities Quotes
- I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin
- Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something… — Lois Capps
- Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson
- The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is… — Betty Friedan
- As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an… — Eric Hoffer
- I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons
- Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester