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“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he…

— Adam Smith

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

— Christian Bale

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

— Samuel Foote

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

— Alan K. Simpson

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his…

— Mark Twain

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

— Samuel Johnson

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his…

— Anonymous

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably…

— James Branch Cabell

“His extraordinary indifference to the life snapping at the bait is matched by the risk he runs of doing utterly eccentric things. An impractical…

— Robert Musil

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character.

— Pericles

“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable , and…

— Oscar Wilde

“We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller…

— Jon Ronson