Top 1200 Human Capacity Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.

A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.

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

It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

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

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening - a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.

A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

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

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness.

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it's hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.