Ability Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to…

— Stephanie Dowrick

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

— Charles Darwin

“In neither general nor social life should the 'strong' be confused for the 'colorful' or the 'different,' and the 'selection' process will never stray…

— G Rodrigues

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor…

— Noah Webster

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term,…

— Margaret Halsey

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to…

— John Stuart Mill

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of…

— Alexander von Humboldt

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

— Abigail Adams

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson