To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. ‘That’s your course, world,’ one says, ‘mine is this.”

— Virginia Woolf

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

— Brand Blanshard

“We can passively take our place in the negative chain, accepting the harm to ourselves and passing it on to others. Or we can…

— Laura Archera Huxley

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively…

— Brian Posehn

A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection,…

— Henry Cloud

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

— Mark Twain

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

— Peter Kreeft

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

— Derren Brown

Not actively surviving is passively dying.

— Ori Hofmekler

The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.

— Daryl Davis

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of…

— Franz Kafka

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

— Robert Plant

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

— Anatoly Karpov

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti