Capacity Quotes

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

I realized then that if something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and working capacity gets enhanced manifold.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.