Capacity Quote by Shana Alexander

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

— Herbert Spencer

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague…

— C. S. Lewis

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest…

— Dalai Lama

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes…

— David Korten

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to…

— Tennessee Williams

Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots…

— Rene Descartes

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a…

— Rene Dubos

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and…

— Evgeny Morozov

Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on.…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in…

— Charles Hugh Smith

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

— James Madison

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…

— A. E. Housman

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding…

— Thales