Eccentricity Quotes

47 quotes by 41 authors

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek… — Steven Brust
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their… — Samuel Johnson
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people. — Rachel Weisz
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be… — Joseph Brodsky
Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and… — James Hillman
I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste… — Jean Paul Gaultier
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal… — Robert H. Jackson
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves… — Marilynne Robinson
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our… — Sydney J. Harris
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it. — Osbert Lancaster
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to… — Yvonne Rainer
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these… — Anna Kamienska
Eccentricity is what's sexy in people. — Rachel Weisz
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties. — Andy Hargreaves
My eccentricity became direction. — Jean Paul Gaultier
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me… — Kris Saknussemm
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops… — Richard Ford
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready… — Rex Stout
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. — John Noble

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