Capacity Quotes

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. (Plautus)
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. View quote
Ezra Pound
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. View quote
Adam Ferguson
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. View quote
Warren Bennis
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. View quote
Ben Okri
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. View quote
Terry Southern
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. (William Hazlitt)
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. View quote
William Saroyan
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. View quote
George Santayana
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? View quote
Bell hooks
The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. View quote
George Orwell
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. View quote
H. L. Mencken
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. View quote
Mark Twain