Ability Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.”

— Dean Koontz

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

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional…

— John Stuart Mill

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

— Mason Cooley

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny,…

— John Stuart Mill

“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 is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of…

— Ellen Terry

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

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

“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.”

— Ben Macintyre