It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.