Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has… — Nhat Hanh
Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught. — Eric Berne
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… — Charles Dickens
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence… — Gay Talese
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I… — Desmond Tutu
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society. — Henry Adams
God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction. — Muhammad Ali
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay
No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he… — Jean de la Bruyere
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. — Allan Bloom
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. — Amanda Lindhout
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies. — Lajos Kossuth
So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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… — George Eliot
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is… — Mark Twain
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally… — John Dewey
The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and… — John Dewey
Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for… — Erich Fromm
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. — Robert South
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading… — Allan Bloom
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our… — Joshua Foer
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark… — Norman Douglas

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