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Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."— Lao Tzu
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Meaning of this quote
Rest can be more honest and useful than activity with no purpose. The contrast questions treating busyness as an achievement in itself.
Key takeaway:
Check whether an activity serves a useful purpose.
Origin of the quote
Modern maxim credited to Laozi in twentieth-century writing.
Who actually said this?
Likely misattributedStenudd traces a version to a 1950 essay by Pitirim Sorokin and D. S. Gove, rather than a matching Tao Te Ching sentence.
