« All Active Quotes · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Page
Active Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
- Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
- Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
- When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in…
- The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
More Active Quotes
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only… — Annie Besant
- The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to… — Annie Besant
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
- Active Evil is better than Passive Good. — William Blake
- I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm… — Andrea Bocelli
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a… — Allen Boyd
- Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly… — Charlotte Bronte
- When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know,… — Jerry Brown
- We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies,… — Les Brown