Capacity Quotes

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

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

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.