“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”

“I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.”

“I’m merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.”

“Lessing directs here, for the modern English author, see Doris Lessing.”

“Beatrice: He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me; and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”

“Factories today are being run less and less by the authority of experience only, and more and more by the authority of figures and facts. The superintendent and manager of long experience and intuitive knowledge only is forced to make room for the younger man, of less experience, perhaps, but who modernizes his work by the jurisdiction of figures alone.”

“It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.”

“The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything…”

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”