Top 400 Capacities Quotes & Sayings

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

Tune into your own capacities and always make time for sleep

Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.

Our system rewards specific talents more than anything. I got pushed forward for having certain capacities. Others had their horizons systematically lowered for having capacities that our academic system had no use for. I've seen countless people lose heart and feel like they should settle for less, that they don't deserve abundance.

What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?

Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.

One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory.

If I was going to sum up my approach to this whole mind issue, I would say this: the question is often formulated in a very bad way - for example, by posing the question in terms of stuff. It's better to start with the things we do know: for example, that there are people and other thinking creatures, who have mental capacities. Our next step should be to say something about these capacities.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

We in Europe have great capacities.

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing them.

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.