"Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause……" — Philip Yancey

More Absorbs Quotes

This quote is filed under Absorbs Quotes, one of 60 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams
• A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening… — Agnes Repplier
• No canvas absorbs colour like memory. — Robert Aris Willmott
• Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for… — Walt Whitman
• I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. — Jeremy Northam
• I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from… — Victor Pelevin
• He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself… — Gerhard Tersteegen
• The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are… — Maria Montessori
• I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is… — Jean Shinoda Bolen

See all 60 Absorbs Quotes »