The New International Webster's Pocket Quotation Dictionary of the English Language [antikvár]

Ability Ability Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Francis Bacon No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Andrew Carnegie I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. Nicholas ofCusa Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Elbert Green Hubbard Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a hundred. Japanese Proverb A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. Thomas Jefferson Without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. Quintilian S". i ¦