Eccentricity Quote by Darold Treffert

Eccentricities of genius.

— Charles Dickens

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere…

— John Noble

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius…

— Edith Sitwell

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That…

— John Stuart Mill

There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities…

— Darold Treffert

“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the…

— Edith Sitwell

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late,…

— Thomas Watson, Jr

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

— Saul Bellow

“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to distinction, he…

— John Galt

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

— Thalaivasal Vijay