Ian Hacking Quotes

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

Inaction counted as a choice.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

to not act is a choice too

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Not to decide is to decide.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Not deciding is a decision. Let’s all remember that when we decide not to do something.

I don't plan to go out and do action or not do action.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.