Immanuel Kant Quotes

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

We have to learn to do more with less.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

...doing more with less.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

What we need is to use what we have.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Nothing is wasted.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

We are going to put "thrift" back in the dictionary.

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.