Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades."
Capacity quotes
Capacity
365 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Theologian
"Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities."
Thaddeus Stevens
Politician
"Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!"
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"Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee."
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"The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine."
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"Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive."
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"We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems."
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"The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason."
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"We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience."
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"Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen."
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"A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study."
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"It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things."
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"It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do."
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"To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves."
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"Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God."
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"The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us."
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"Know your capacities and continually improve upon them."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning."
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