Human Capacity Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence… — Martin Rees
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow… — William V. Shannon
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. — Betty Friedan
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a… — Katherine Dunn
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that… — Eliot Spitzer
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our… — Ken Robinson
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles. — Marilyn Ferguson
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isnÂ´t just for registering pleasure and pain.… — Michael Sandel
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For… — Robert Muller
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should… — Olaf Stapledon
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with… — Benjamin Percy
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. — Harold Nicolson
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm… — Diana Trilling
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography,… — Joshua Foer
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. — Steven Pinker

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