There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a…

“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.”

— Alain de Botton

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his…

— Francis Galton

One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have…

— Alex Campbell

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

— Arturo Toscanini

“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed…

— Donald Hall

In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into…

— Annalee Newitz

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Part of me thinks the slowness is on your side.”

— Kiera Cass

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is…

— Connie Willis

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.”

— Rebecca Solnit

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

— Alain Prost