The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Millicent Fawcett

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Menander

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume

The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Eric Sevareid

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Stephen Gardiner

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
H. P. Blavatsky

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
Pablo Picasso

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
John Adair

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
Whittaker Chambers

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
B. H. Liddell Hart

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison