The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Henri Frederic Amiel

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Jose Marti

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Jeanne Moreau

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Raymond Chandler

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
Temple Grandin

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Alexandre Dumas

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil

Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Morgan Freeman

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
Charles Babbage

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
Isadora Duncan

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardner