Capable Quote by John Dewey

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent…

— Albert Einstein

He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his…

— Samuel Johnson

“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.”

— Shannon L. Alder

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to…

— Clark Moustakas

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be…

— Andre Alexis

People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They say [they…

— Wang Yangming

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very…

— Adam Smith

“No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what…

— Orson Scott Card

“...human behavior is fragile and unpredictable and often at the mercy of the situation. Every individual still, of course, has a choice as to…

— Laurence Rees

“The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity…

— John Fowles

“What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will…

— Søren Kierkegaard