Gregariousness Quotes

• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Silence, Solitude, Loner

  "A question of faith" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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• There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

  George Steiner

  Culture, Noise

  The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.

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• Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Love Is, Thinking

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• Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

  Susan Cain

  Love, Essentials, Introvert

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  People, Phrases, Diners

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

  Susan Cain

  Air, People, Solitude

  "Introverts run the world -- quietly" by Susan Cain, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mediocrity, Individual, Sole

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• The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Development, May, Odd

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.7, Hayes Barton Press

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• Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

  Daniel Gillies

  Pals, Kevin, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Loyalty, Heart, Men

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Kindness, Compassion, Practice

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

  Charles Buxton

  Party, Too Much, Companionship

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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