“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

“Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

““Outlier” is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book I’m interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

“Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”

Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader

“Those who experiment and experience a lot in life have little taste in things.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“They are here among us. Let us be wise enough to learn from those who can teach us much — who will be our friends if we will but let them!”

George Adamski (1891–1965) American ufologist