Psychology Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing tends to materialize man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labor

— Anonymous

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald

“The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that…

— Geoffrey Wood

“For my part, I think that to a man of spirit there is no other aim and end of his labours except the labours…

— Dr Jayaswal

“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of…

— Adam Smith

“As you found today, having no other options makes even menial labor desirable. Sever one attachment and others become more viable.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“If little labor, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”

— George Fillmore Swain