Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

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

But people who are capable of thinking clearly are in a minority, of course.

True thinking is rare — just like true listening.

limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.

We find very few people of good sense, except those who are of our own opinion.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.