Mental Capacity

Famous quotes containing the words mental capacity, mental and/or capacity:

    “Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspection and interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “see the shaky future grow familiar
    in the pinched, indigenous faces
    of these thoroughbred mental cases,
    twice my age and half my weight.
    We are all old-timers,
    each of us holds a locked razor.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)