Capability Quote by Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one…

— Blaise Pascal

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction…

— Henry Miller

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

— Edwin Louis Cole

The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes…

— Charles Darwin

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

— George Bernard Shaw

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of…

— Luc de Clapiers

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

— Thomas S. Monson

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those…

— Rene Descartes

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses,…

— Richard Steele

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection…

— Giacomo Leopardi