It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. – George Gissing
I would never say President Obama doesn’t have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states. – Gerald Walpin
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H. L. Mencken
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. – Herbert Simon
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist. – Berkeley Breathed
The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species. – Baruj Benacerraf
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. – Abraham Lincoln
When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity. – Barbara Hale
I’m afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams’ mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory. – Antony Garrett Lisi
I don’t think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples. – A. B. Yehoshua
I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love. – Amanda McBroom
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself. – Dan Quayle
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas. – Fredric Jameson
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. – George Orwell
I have also come to understand Congress’ need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity. – David Price
Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it. – Christian de Duve
