Capacity Quotes - Page 19

• The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Limitless, Manifestation, Universe

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Forgiving, Desire, Sin

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• The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Military, Illusion, Conqueror

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1826, e-artnow

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• Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

  Lewis Thomas

  Unique, Society, Individual

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Reality, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.29, Penguin

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Men

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 11, Ralph Manheim translation, 1925.

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Politics, Way

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• Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Quotation Marks, Politics

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.185, Crown Forum

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• Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored your strengths or may not have encouraged you to develop them. You can discover your basic capacities by experimenting with things that you always wanted to do. Don't be discouraged by notions that seem "silly" or "foolish" or "not you." Do it! Who knows what will happen?

  Ari Kiev

  Teacher, Children, Silly

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• If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society.

  Nhat Hanh

  Offering, Understanding, Healthy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

  Eric Berne

  Mean, Bird, Way

  Joan Halifax, Eric Berne (1967). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, Grove Pr

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• I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  "The Personal History of David Copperfield".

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• He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.

  Gay Talese

  Pain, Block, Frustration

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• I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Compassion, Our World

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

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Cornerstones

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.151, Booklassic

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• God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Normal, Talent, Achieve

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1963). “Strength to love”

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• The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Self, He Man

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• 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.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

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• No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Ocean, Judging

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, People, Achievement

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• A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, May, Venture

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• We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

  John Claypool

  Courage, Prayer, Adventure

  John Claypool (1983). “The light within you”, W Publishing Group

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• [A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Taste, Leisure

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• Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe. It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole. It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.

  Adam Frank

  Focus, Shining, Finals

  Adam Frank (2011). “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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