Less Necessary Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not…
— William Hazlitt
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
— Joseph de Maistre
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive…
— William Hazlitt
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
— Thornton Wilder
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are…
— Leo Tolstoy
Who Wrote These Less Necessary Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 8 Less Necessary Quotes as follows: