Buddhism Quote by John Muir

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

— Robert Frost

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

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of…

— Tom Robbins

People are quite frequently eccentric.

— Jane Smiley

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem…

— Erich Fromm

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

— Temple Grandin

“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

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment…

— David Stove

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

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

— Geraldine Jewsbury

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an…

— Bill Watterson

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics…

— Mabel Osgood Wright