Quotes about Potentiality
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Objection 1: It seems that God does not know evil things. For the Philosopher (De Anima iii) says that the intellect which is not in potentiality does not know privation. But "evil is the privation of good," as Augustine says (Confess. iii, 7). Therefore, as the intellect of God is never in potentiality, but is always in act, as is clear from the foregoing (A[2] ), it seems that God does not know evil things.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
— George Eliot
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.
— Winston Churchill
each one needs something outside itself to actualize its potentiality for change.
— Peter Kreeft
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
— Albert Camus
All things lie dark in possibility.
— William Saroyan
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I believe that every person is born with talent.
— Maya Angelou