Eccentricity Quotes

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

Society, Point, Sanity

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill

Strength, Courage, Society

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

Time, Courage, Society

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana

Design, Paradise, Hobbies

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois

Avoid, Original, Profoundly

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 out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust

Trust, Fear, Fashion

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Rachel Weisz

Sexy, Room, Hollywood

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
Jaron Lanier

Dad, Live, Sometimes

My eccentricity became direction.
Jean Paul Gaultier

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
Martin Short

Mother, Master, Absurdity

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman

Music, Often, Guilty

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

Social, Lack, Exists

No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.
Tony Kaye

Person, Become, Present

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
Ben Macintyre

Best, Game, Book

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