Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 361 authors

Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation,… — Kenny Smith
...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude… — Marvin J. Ashton
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when… — Jerry Bridges
Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no… — Eleanor Duckworth
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. — William Ralph Inge
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember… — Nikolai Berdyaev
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. — Merton Miller
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the… — Learned Hand
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power… — Elif Safak
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and… — William Blake
Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active… — Carl Nielsen
Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity — Yatin Patel
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.… — Arthur Goldberg
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be… — Simone de Beauvoir
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. — Tom Peters
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as… — Kabir
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is… — Susan Sontag
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult… — Simon Mainwaring

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