“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
Henry Home
“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
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”
Abraham Cowley
“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind”
Giacomo Leopardi
