“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
Maya Angelou
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
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