{"quotes":[{"text":"It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.  Dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["capacity","enjoyment","fool","happiness","imperfections","philosophy","satisfaction","socrates"],"id":2294,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.","author":"Alfred North Whitehead","tags":["ability","act","capacity "],"id":25177,"author_id":"Alfred+North+Whitehead"},{"text":"How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.","author":"Mikhail Naimy","tags":["capacity","inspirational","self-knowledge"],"id":27261,"author_id":"Mikhail+Naimy"},{"text":"Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity.","author":"Bidemi Mark-Mordi","tags":["capacity","choice","mistakes","motive"],"id":59031,"author_id":"Bidemi+Mark-Mordi"},{"text":"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["art","creation","capacity "],"id":60478,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"Leadership is the ability to make things happen.","author":"Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha","tags":["ability","capacity","edge","execution","followership","ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha","leader","leadership","power","truth","wisdom"],"id":61857,"author_id":"Ifeanyi+Enoch+Onuoha"},{"text":"In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.","author":"David Blaine","tags":["minds","capacity","astonish "],"id":66932,"author_id":"David+Blaine"},{"text":"A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.","author":"Christian D. Larson","tags":["ability","agility","capacity","clean","creative","disease","endurance","energies","genius","habits","morally"],"id":67113,"author_id":"Christian+D.+Larson"},{"text":"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.I believe in the reality of progress.I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["belief","capacity","conquer","curse","damage","discovery","ethics","evidence","fact","falsehood","free","freedom","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-thought","honesty","humble","ignorance","immorality","intent","know","knowledge","lie","mankind","mighty","progress","reality","religion","respect","slave","society","speech","thinking","thought","truth","vicious","virtuous","witches"],"id":79159,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"Be determined that you will let every dream of yours be released to the fullest capacity. Brighten your picture!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["big-dreams","bright","brighten-the-corner","capacity","determination","determine","dream-big","dreams","food-for-thought","full","israelmore-ayivor","picture"],"id":86308,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}