The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. you trade in your reality for a role. you give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. conscience cannot stand much violence.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Ability without honor is useless.