Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
Mathematicians are born, not made.