The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson

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

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor

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

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
Leland Stanford

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
Carol Moseley Braun

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
Harold Nicolson

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
Steven Cojocaru

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Terry Southern

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.
Girma Woldegiorgis

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
Conor Cruise O'Brien

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 most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri

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

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
Warren Christopher

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
Adam Schiff

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
Mark Udall

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
Leland Stanford