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No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth ... — Isaac Asimov

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck — Hunter S. Thompson

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you. — Steven Galloway

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. — Odilon Redon

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. — John Darnielle

What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ... — John Geddes

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms. — Rufus Wainwright

I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party. — Barack Obama

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. — Brian Eno

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it. — Cristina Saralegui

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves. — Peter Beard

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante? — Robert Schumann

The cat is a dilettante in fur. — Theophile Gautier

I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been. — David Blackwell

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. — Anna Julia Cooper

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning. — Linda Ronstadt

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' — Ian Hacking

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. — George V. Higgins

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation. — Russell Hoban

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin. — Zach Condon

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson

Nothing happens until you decide. — Oprah Winfrey

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. — Aleksandar Hemon

Only death can cure the hip dilettante. — Gilbert Sorrentino

Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased. — Vernor Vinge

We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love. — Rachel Held Evans