43 Quotes About Idle Minds

An idle room can leave room for question. Essentially, a brain never goes to rest. It is activated doing a scan of your environment and finding fluctuations that occur. Here is a look at some great quotes about idle minds that capture this unique characteristic.

“A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.”

“Although it has been said that idle hands are the devil’s workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil’s workshop.”

“Everybody seems to think I’m lazy I don’t mind, I think they’re crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there’s no need.”

“Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”

“For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.”

“Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.”

“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. ”

“I can’t stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I’ve got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I’ve got to be going forward all the time.”

“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. ”

“I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.”

“Idle hands are the devil’s playthings.”

“Idle hands make fretful minds.”

“Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.”

“Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.”

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.”

“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”

“Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.”

“Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.”

“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.”

“If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can’t be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches… Wake up, it’s your time to rise above idleness.”

“In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.”

“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”

“Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.”

“Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.”

“My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It’s not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. ”

“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”

“Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.”

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”

“The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.”

“The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.”

“The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

“The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success – for a very small sector of the population.”

“There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones.”

“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”

“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

“Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.”

“Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”

“You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. … Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.”

“You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.”

Targeting problem areas of procrastination will help you maintain a high activity level and prevent an idle mind from sitting.