Cases Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

— Jaron Lanier

“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.”

— Agatha Christie

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence…

— David J. Schwartz

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

— William Faulkner

Getting Stupid Paid , Off Of Smart Decisons

— Drake

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be…

— Charlie Munger

I owe all my success to stupidity.

— Tom Monaghan

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

— Bertolt Brecht

“Both as workers and as consumers, we feel we move in channels that have been projected from afar by vast impersonal forces. We worry…

— Matthew B. Crawford

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

— Socrates

“Stupidity is an endless commodity”

— Jay J. Falconer