Eccentricity Quotes

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

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. - Richard Ford

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

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

My eccentricity became direction. - Jean Paul Gaultier

It's a city in which all forms of eccentricity were not just tolerated but always welcomed. There is no way to shock people in New Orleans. Tennessee Williams found a home there, and it's no coincidence. - James Lee Burke

He crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket. - Ian Botham

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