Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive.… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind,… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
You don't want to be passive through motion and then try to produce force. That's very scary. That's where you can injure… — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and… — Candace Cameron Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
The city is better because the city has an economy of needs and once you're talking about a city, maybe you can… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It is never ideal to be passive by accepting whatever is personally unacceptable.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me. — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
