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Quotes About Capacity

A man's got to know his limitations.
~ Harry Callahan
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
~ Horace Walpole
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.
~ John Tillotson
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
~ David Sarnoff
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
~ Ezra Pound
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
~ Elizabeth Oakes Smith
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
~ George Eliot
Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
~ George Santayana
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
~ Harry S. Truman
I can find nothing with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity. In fact, however acute our intellects may be, they will no more be able to attain to a comprehension of this than to an understanding of God; for, as He Himself says, He created us in His image and likeness.
~ Teresa of Avila
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.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.
~ Tessa Hadley
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
la complejidad diluye to potential de producir un impacto».
~ Thom S. Rainer
The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which it is directed, and consequently the nature of a capacity is diversified as the nature of the act is diversified.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking.
~ Thomas C. Oden
Human freedom is created by God with a capacity for responsiveness to God.
~ Thomas C. Oden
Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God.
~ Thomas C. Oden
an immense digital computational capacity based upon binary reality cells that are the fundamental constituent of aware consciousness or mind.
~ Thomas Campbell
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
~ Thomas Carlyle