Capacity Quotes

A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.

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

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

People are just not impressed by me at home.