Two chapters from Te Tao Ching:

No need to leave your door to know the whole world;
No need to peer through your windows to know the Way of Heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.
Therefore the Sage knows without going.
names without seeing.
and completes without doing a thing.


Those who work at their studies increase day after day;
Those who have heard of the Tao decrease day after day
They decrease and decrease till they get to the point where they do nothing.
They do nothing and yet there's nothing undone.
When someone wants to take control of the world, he must always be unconcerned with affairs.
For in a case where he's concerned with affairs,
He'll be unworthy, as well, of taking control of the world