Capable Quotes
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.
Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.
Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.
