Rare Individuals Quotes

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

Star people are rare.

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.

My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.

There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.

I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

There are very few of us left.

It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.