Quotes About Human Capacity

#1. Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

R.D. Laing

#2. Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Bill Hybels

#4. Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

Michel Templet

#5. Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.

Amit Ray

#6. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#7. Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Wilhelm Reich

#8. Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind.

Brian Herbert

#9. Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

Pierre Levy

#10. Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul - and she possesses many - she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

Clive Barker

#11. Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

Horace Mann

#12. The onus of Connecting rightly, Conceiving brightly, Conveying quietly, and Concluding wisely are the capatencies (capacity and competence) of man

Priyavrat Thareja

#13. Our capacity as human beings for imagination and storytelling makes us exquisitely vulnerable to exploitation by those who understand the properties of ideological power.

David Smail

#14. Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

Margaret Mead

#15. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#16. I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.

Howard Zinn

#17. Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.

Charles R. Swindoll

#18. When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

John Granger

#19. I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#20. The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

#21. A typical CR2032 will have a quoted energy capacity of 230mAh at 3 volts. Just to put this into context, this is about the amount of energy required to power a human being for just over 20 seconds.

Robin Heydon

#22. Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have ... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#23. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Idries Shah

#24. To truly live by faith, one must be willing to live in the tension of not knowing. Not understanding certain things. Not having all the answers. A person must walk humbly, bearing the mystery of a God who far surpasses any human capacity to fully define Him.

Jamie George

#25. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Betty Friedan

#26. Human potential is amazing ... We have the capacity to create a world that is peaceful ... one that spreads kindness and love rather than hatred. If we believe it to be so, it will be our truth, and we will create it.

Kristi Bowman

#27. The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential

Sunday Adelaja

#28. Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

Bryan Adams

#29. What matters is not the features of our character or the drives and instincts per se, but rather the stand we take toward them. And the capacity to take such a stand is what makes us human beings.

Viktor E. Frankl

#30. But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.

Hillary Clinton

#31. Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Andrei Tarkovsky

#32. We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

Jean Houston

#33. Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion - and not only a capacity, for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion.

Billy Graham

#34. The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Helen Keller

#35. Human Dignity has five characteristics : A playful curiosity,a capacity for dreams, a sense of humor to achieve and correct those dreams, a certain flexibility and spontaenity of behavior, a capacity to fight for and save those dreams !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#36. However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

Rollo May

#37. Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.

Robert Muller

#38. As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Desmond Tutu

#39. What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's openly?

Wim Wenders

#40. I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Ben Lerner

#41. Jesus was no cold Superman - he was more human than any of us. Entirely pure, unweakened by evil, he was loving and open to the core. His ardor, truth, sensitivity, power, capacity for joy and pain were unlimited, and everything that happened to him happened in the immeasurableness of his divinity.

Romano Guardini

#42. Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#43. The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings of humans. What is distinctively human is not the capacity for language. It is the crystallisation of language in writing.

John N. Gray

#44. The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Margot Asquith

#45. It simply lies beyond the capacity of the human mind. And if the Bible is correct, then what created our universe, God, was and is metaphysical.

Gerald Schroeder

#46. There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection
except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

Thomas Huxley

#47. Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

Leonard Mlodinow

#48. In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

Nelson Mandela

#49. The human brain is like a freight car, guaranteed to carry a certain capacity but often running empty.

Lorraine Gokul

#50. The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it..
We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

John Calvin

#51. Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Jeanette Winterson

#52. At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

Michael Dorris

#53. My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

Susan Orlean

#54. Frankl discovered that a human being's fundamental dignity lies in his capacity to choose his response to any situation - his response-ability.

Fred Kofman

#55. Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.

Helen Keller

#56. Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

Erich Fromm

#57. We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation.

Neil Postman

#58. Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

Peter Senge

#59. We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.
Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

Bill Jensen

#60. All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

Muhammad Yunus

#61. Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

H. H. Asquith

#62. For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

Thabo Mbeki

#63. I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

Satya Nadella

#64. A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Layne Redmond

#65. Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.

Edna Adan Ismail

#66. Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

Bill Plotkin

#67. Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Marian Anderson

#68. I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate
even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth. Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)

Norman Cousins

#69. All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy ... So, money kind of allows them to express it ... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

Muhammad Yunus

#70. -Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.-

-And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-

Neal Shusterman

#71. Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given.

Walter Brueggemann

#72. In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Katherine Dunn

#73. No one has the capacity to judge the value of human life.

R.S. Grey

#74. Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Ray Kurzweil

#75. We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity ... I think that's what being really human means.

Gustave Flaubert

#76. An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

Terry Eagleton

#77. The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

Rick Yancey

#78. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Isabel Allende

#79. A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

Will Self

#80. We've seen what about 50% of our human capacity can accomplish. Visualize what 100% can do.

Warren Buffett

#81. An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [ ... ] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

George R R Martin

#82. There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

Desmond Tutu

#83. True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#84. The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

Mary McCarthy

#85. Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

Parker J. Palmer

#86. Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

Scott Adams

#87. Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God.

Thomas C. Oden

#88. A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet

Tony Juniper

#89. Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.

Woody Allen

#90. The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#91. The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.

Alastair Reynolds

#92. Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

Brene Brown

#93. The human mind is something very unique and precious. Possessing an unusual elasticity and capacity for wisdom, it can evolve at a rate found in no other life-form.

Dalai Lama XIV

#94. The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

Denis Dutton

#95. A human's love. I couldn't wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans ... humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#96. Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

John Twelve Hawks

#97. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Michael J. Gelb

#98. Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

Diana Trilling

#99. [T]he human equipment includes, for instance, a capacity for personal affection and a willingness to strangle selfish and predatory impulse with the rope of social decency.

Rex Stout

#100. The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

Caity Lotz