A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph Addison

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow