Top Idle Quotes
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
William Emerson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Jorge Luis Borges 
Mohandas Gandhi 
Arthur Rimbaud 
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran 
80% of people like this quote
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen
61% of people like this quote
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
61% of people like this quote
Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
William Emerson
60% of people like this quote
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
57% of people like this quote
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
57% of people like this quote
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
Juan Ruiz
56% of people like this quote
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler
55% of people like this quote
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot
55% of people like this quote
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