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Capacity 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…
- Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
- The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will…
- The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is…
- A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood…
- 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…
- When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a…
- 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 Capacity Quotes
- In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho
- In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
- The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm
- All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi
- Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh