Inert Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Henry Adams)
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. View quote
Don Tapscott
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do. View quote
Stephen King
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live. View quote
Robertson Davies
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today. View quote
Daniel Dennett
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert. View quote
Neil Jordan
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world. (Rupert Sheldrake)
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. View quote
David James Duncan
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. View quote
Minor White
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. View quote
Shoshana Zuboff
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing in the real world which is merely an inert fact. Every reality is there for feeling: it promotes feeling; and it is felt. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
[T]he energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. View quote
Arthur Balfour
The mind that puts everything in question, reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity? View quote
Emil Cioran
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
We should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and bring it also under its reign of constant evolution. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data and to receive input from its neighborhood, we change an inert object into an animated node. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Organization: smooth and relentless; Organization: massive and inert, tolerant of the submissive, serenely cruel to the unbeliever... View quote
Jack Vance
Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter because I don't feel a thing, and neither do they. View quote
John Osborne
A Man must be very inert to have no character at all. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Brain is inert matter. Brain cannot create any thoughts. Brain can only react to the thoughts which come from outside and then get involved. View quote
Ramesh Balsekar