#less

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. ↗

— William Godwin

#cannot #capacity #our #own #perform

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#knowing #less #looking #more #than

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#doing #life #like #liking #makes

A useless life is an early death. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#early #life #useless

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#bike #city #depending #driven #exercising

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#brought #had #i #less #long

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ever #however #i #less #much

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#learn #less #live #more #more and more

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#beginning #created #dedication #economic #emerged