Activity Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

— Thomas Carlyle

Insight without action is worthless.

— Marie Forleo

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

— Franz Grillparzer

What good are insights? They only make things worse.

— Raymond Carver

Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to…

— Stanislaw Lem

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

— Francis M. Lyman

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

— Haruki Murakami

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

— Henry Williams

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

— Anatole France

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

— Cassandra Clare

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

— Jorge Luis Borges

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

— Marshall McLuhan