Few of us know what we are capable of doing. . . we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.
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.
Until the day we die our brain remains capable of change, according to the challenges that we set for it.
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.