Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
16/04/2011 la 11:27 am
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
27/09/2011 la 7:58 am
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.
27/09/2011 la 12:58 pm
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
29/09/2011 la 8:43 am
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
29/09/2011 la 4:50 pm
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
07/10/2011 la 11:38 am
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
26/10/2011 la 5:40 pm
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
27/10/2011 la 11:36 pm
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
02/11/2011 la 9:18 am
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.