Potentialities Quotes

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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a… — Margaret Mead
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by… — Abraham Maslow
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his… — Charles de Gaulle
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits… — Viktor E. Frankl
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in… — Richard Wright
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it… — Martin Buber
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips… — Rollo May
There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them. — E F Schumacher
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and… — Sydney J. Harris
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in… — Erich Fromm
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is… — Joseph Campbell
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts. — Werner Heisenberg
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is helping the child realise his potentialities. — Erich Fromm
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace,… — John Foster Dulles
Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized,… — Wyndham Lewis
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive… — Erik Erikson
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and… — Larry MacPhail

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