Capacity Quotes - Page 31

• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Inspirational, Choices, Saying Yes

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• These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

  Karl Marx

  Obstacles, Individual, Certain

  Karl Marx (1967). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalistic Production”

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• There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Doe, World, Earth

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270" by Sri Chinmoy, (#18991, Part 190), 1983.

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• Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Analysis

  "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness‎". Book by Stephen Covey, November 2004.

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• The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country - or, for that matter, a region - to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people's ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free?

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Names, Ideas

  "Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community". Book by Wendell Berry, 1993.

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• That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Advice, Constitution

  "Diary of Thomas Burton Esq: Volume 2, April 1657 - February 1658". Book by Thomas Burton, www.british-history.ac.uk. 1828.

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Exercise, Past, Race

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.

  John Ralston Saul

  Expression, Common Sense, Imagination

  John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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

  Louis Dudek

  Wonderful, Century, Seeing

  Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

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• I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Pain, Passion, Thinking

  "Dialogues on Metaphysics". Book by Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogue III, 1688.

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• I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Jobs, Children

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• Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.

  James Elkins

  Eye, Dark, Moon

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• 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.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Children, Discipline

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• Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, Thinking, Skills

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• The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Survival, Intellectual

  Denis Dutton (2009). “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

  Denis Dutton

  Understanding, Genius, Constant

  "Of Human Accomplishment". The New Criterion, www.denisdutton.com. February, 2004.

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• I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

  Kurt Sutter

  Mistake, Character, Interesting

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• Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.

  Richard Attias

  Sports, Games, Bridges

  "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Intellectual, Watches

  "The Perimeter of Ignorance". www.haydenplanetarium.org. November 01, 2005.

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• We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Errors, Together

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Want, Cunning, Treachery

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• Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Survival, Needs

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 16, p. 200, 1985.

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