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Capacity Quotes by George Eliot
- To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view…
- Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
- Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
More Capacity Quotes
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi
- Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- 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