Quotes of: Human-capacity Keyword

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean tha...

On Liberty

It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of...

Life of Richard Savage

All knowledge that takes special training to acquire is the province of the Magician energy. Whether you are an apprentice training to become a master electrician and unraveling the mysteries of high voltage; or a medical student, grinding away night...

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

On Character and Mental Toughness

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

David Copperfield

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Frankenstein

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Happiness and Contemplation

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Thich Nhat Hanh

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Are You My Mother?

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

Killosophy

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

Red Hook Road

Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.

Made You Up

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

Notes from Underground

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

The Lacuna

The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification

The Lady of Bolton Hill

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

Leap

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Al Oerter

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of re...

Fredric Jameson