Active Quotes
1204 quotes by 1005 authors
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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn…
— Carter Heyward
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The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
— Willis R. Whitney
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A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart,…
— George Whitefield
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
— Claude Bernard
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What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be…
— Pope John Paul II
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The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
— Anna Lindh
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
— Paul Klee
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If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then…
— Henry Jenkins
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty…
— John Philpot Curran
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Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is…
— Leo Buscaglia
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It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
— Ernest Holmes
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I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which…
— Dian Fossey
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
— Aristotle
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses…
— G. Stanley Hall
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The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give…
— Marie Curie
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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
— Richard Courant
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Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
— John Dewey
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