Every man is like the company he loves to keep.
—Euripides, *410 BC
Every man is known by the company he avoids.
—Anonymous
9
Love your neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
—Anonymous
10
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
—George Herbert, 1640
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
they are generally the same people.
—G. K. Chesterton, 1910
***
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
—Hermann Hesse, 1919
Excellence makes people nervous.
—Shana Alexander, 1970
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
—John Dewey, 1929
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
—Howard Mumford Jones, 1951
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him from this sign, that the dunces
are all in confederacy against him.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
—Albert Einstein, 1940
The artist and the multitude are natural enemies.
—Robert Altman, 1976
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as
lightning rods draw the flashes.
—Theodor Reik, 1963
9
I have seen this twist of Euripides’ aphorism in a book published as early as in 1915—without a
reference.
10
I have seen this extension of a Bible’s commandment (Leviticus 19:18) attributed to some Louise
Beal (could that be Louise Lester Beal, 1867-1952?), but could not find a reliable confirmation of
this authorship.
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—Euripides, *410 BC
Every man is known by the company he avoids.
—Anonymous
9
Love your neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
—Anonymous
10
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
—George Herbert, 1640
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
they are generally the same people.
—G. K. Chesterton, 1910
***
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
—Hermann Hesse, 1919
Excellence makes people nervous.
—Shana Alexander, 1970
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
—John Dewey, 1929
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
—Howard Mumford Jones, 1951
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him from this sign, that the dunces
are all in confederacy against him.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
—Albert Einstein, 1940
The artist and the multitude are natural enemies.
—Robert Altman, 1976
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as
lightning rods draw the flashes.
—Theodor Reik, 1963
9
I have seen this twist of Euripides’ aphorism in a book published as early as in 1915—without a
reference.
10
I have seen this extension of a Bible’s commandment (Leviticus 19:18) attributed to some Louise
Beal (could that be Louise Lester Beal, 1867-1952?), but could not find a reliable confirmation of
this authorship.
150
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