Capable Quotes
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.
Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.
There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.
...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.
There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.
People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.
A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.
Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.
There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.
A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
We don’t know what we’re capable of until we have to survive. Each of us is stronger than we know - the key is learning to tap that power at will.
The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.
If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry