Capacity Quotes - Page 3

People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

As we patiently follow the Savior, He will bless us beyond our own capacity to become what He wants us to be.

What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.