Capacity Quote by Richard Steele

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their…

— Aristotle

We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little…

— Robert Boyle

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am…

— John Locke

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

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment;…

— Laurence Sterne

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed…

— Adam Smith

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

— Blaise Pascal

“Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight…

— Michel de Montaigne