Top 1200 Human Capacity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

The people have the right to know whether or not the person they elect has the capacity to represent them.

Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.

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

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the B chain. The immunological difference between beef insulin and human insulin, which is presumably responsible for the antigenicity of the former in some human beings, is thus limited to very a small portion of the whole molecule.

For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.

I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God's thoughts, God's voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.

If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

If you ask me what's Aventura's forte, I'll obviously say its capacity to deliver hits.