conformity quotes by WALT WHITMAN-1477158371

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.



conformity quotes by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU-1477157115

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.



conformity quotes by CONDORCET-1477155335

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.



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conformity quotes by WILLIAM FAULKNER-1477152590

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.



conformity quotes by ALBERT CAMUS-1477151099

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.



conformity quotes by MAX BEERBOHM-1477149828

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.



conformity quotes by JOHN CAGE-1477148197

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.



conformity quotes by MICHAEL KORDA-1477146906

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.



conformity quotes by BOB MARLEY-1477145325

Emancipate yourself from mental slaveryNone but ourselves can free our minds.



conformity quotes by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ-1477143954

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.



conformity quotes by ADLAI STEVENSON-1477142603

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.



conformity quotes by BUDDHA-1477135940

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.



conformity quotes by LATIN PROVERB-1477125712

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.



conformity quotes by H.G. WELLS-1477121910

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.



conformity quotes by ANATOLE FRANCE-1477120219

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.



conformity quotes by CLARENCE DARROW-1477119019

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.



conformity quotes by CHINESE PROVERB-1477117289

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.



conformity quotes by H.L. MENCKEN-1477115838

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.



conformity quotes by G.B. SHAW-1477113600

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.



conformity quotes by FRITZ PERLS-1477068691

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.



conformity quotes by ALEXANDER HAMILTON-1477066963

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.



conformity quotes by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE-1477065259

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.



conformity quotes by ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO-1477063539

Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.



conformity quotes by MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE-1477062198

Only dead fish swim with the stream.



conformity quotes by ANONYMOUS MAN ONCANDID CAMERA-1477060594

I don't rent space to anyone in my head.



conformity quotes by FROM THE MOVIEED TV-1477059073

My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal.



conformity quotes by CARL SAGAN-1477054230

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.



conformity quotes by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE-1477041182

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.



conformity quotes by RAYMOND E. FEIST-1477039790

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.



conformity quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1477038368

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.



conformity quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1476880835

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.



conformity quotes by ANI DIFRANCO-1476879611

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.



conformity quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1476878285

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.



conformity quotes by ERIC HOFFER-1476864344

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.



conformity quotes by WILSON MIZNER-1476862802

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.



conformity quotes by W.J. REICHMANN-1476861172

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!



conformity quotes by ELI KHAMAROV-1476859891

I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.



conformity quotes by PRAXEDIS GUERRERO-1476857280

To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma.



conformity quotes by STEPHEN A. KALLIS-1476856036

Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.



conformity quotes by AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE AND JULIUS CHARLES HARE-1476854438

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.



conformity quotes by JOHN ALLSTON-1476852762

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.



conformity quotes by WALTER MOBERLY-1476851561

We need - and should encourage and honour - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.



conformity quotes by HERMAN MELVILLE-1476850351

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.



conformity quotes by WILLIAM J. DYBUS-1476807051

I may not be different, but I'm definitely not the same.



conformity quotes by PAUL VIXIE-1476805822

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.



conformity quotes by PROVERB-1476801943

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.



conformity quotes by SATCHEL PAIGE-1476800432

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.



conformity quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1476798891

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.



conformity quotes by FROM THE MOVIEHAUNTED-1476791366

Doubt is healthy. It tests one's convictions.



conformity quotes by JOHN LOCKE-1476783076

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.



conformity quotes by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE-1476781565

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.



conformity quotes by MARK TWAIN-1476773032

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.



conformity quotes by NORMAN MAILER-1476721762

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.



conformity quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1476720194

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.



conformity quotes by J.K. GALBRAITH-1476717376

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.



conformity quotes by VOLTAIRE-1476714826

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.



conformity quotes by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER-1476713094

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it.



conformity quotes by WINSTON CHURCHILL-1476703064

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.