Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and… — David A. Bednar
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he… — Thomas S. Monson
We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become. — Thomas S. Monson
The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of… — Gordon Brown
If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell. — Michael Ventura
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely… — Darrel Ray
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. — Edward Thorndike
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels… — David Sylvester
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. — Thomas S. Monson
Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to… — Joel Fuhrman
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a… — Athanasius of Alexandria
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. — Heinz Kohut
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we… — Unknown Author
Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think… — Nhat Hanh
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among… — Thomas Nagel
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our… — Ariel Dorfman
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. — William James
One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your… — Unknown Author
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth:… — Rajneesh
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay — Unknown Author
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim

Who Wrote These Capacity Quotes

1,415 authors contributed a total of 2,116 Capacity Quotes, led by these top contributors: