Quotes About Capacity

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

A man must know his limitations.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.