The state of being able; physical, mental,legal, or financial power to do.
Skill to do comes of doing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)Society and Solitude
It is great ability to be able to cenceal one's ability. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680)Maxims
Better be proficient in one art than a smattere in a hundred. - Japanese Proverb
They are able because they think they are able. - Vergil(70-19 B.C.) Aeneid
A man who qualify himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826)
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. - Francis Bacon(1561-1620) Essay: of Studies
I add this also, that Natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Oratio Pro Licinio Archia
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or do that, so long he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long is it impossible to him that he should do it. - Benedict Spinoza(1632-1677) Ethics
Resource: page 1846, Qoutations, (THE INTERNATIONAL WEBSTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
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