Capacity Quote by Leo Tolstoy

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Perception at the rudimentary level has the ability to deceive.”

— Steven Redhead

“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

— Maria Montessori

“What you perceive might deceive you”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel towards him…

— Leo Tolstoy

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little…

— William Hazlitt

“In his dominions children grow unloving between parents who have never loved; infants are nursed on deception from their very birth; they are reared…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Nature gives up her innermost secrets and imparts true wisdom only to him who seeks truth for its own sake and who craves knowledge…

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“Throughout the lives of mortals, there are always pivotal moments. Most often, those moments are so subtle we barely appreciate how momentous they are.…

— Jeff Wheeler