He Said That? 12/23/15

Two from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher (1821-1881), The Idiot, (1868):

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man…

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.