Capacity Quote by Margaret Mead Download Open image “Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.” — Margaret Mead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Humanity Imagine Known Lying Men Nature of man
As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so. — Graham Sutherland Copy Share Image
We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
