Receiving

Famous quotes containing the word receiving:

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)