A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Actively History Read Student

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

Joshua Wong

Not actively surviving is passively dying.

Ori Hofmekler

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

David Eagleman

The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

Wade Davis

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Bebe Moore Campbell

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

Peter Kreeft

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

Immanuel Wallerstein

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

Charles Hodge

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

Whether McCain actively sought Palin in 2008 or passively yielded to aides' pressure, he set a new standard for GOP candidates who rely on lots of sizzle and little substance.

William M. Daley

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

David McCullough

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.

Nathaniel Branden

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.