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 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 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 CLARENCE DARROW-1477022813
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
conformity quotes by JACOB LEVIN-1476988167
It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it.
conformity quotes by JEWEL KILCHER-1476972629
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
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 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 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 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.
conformity quotes by BERTRAND RUSSELL-1476639161
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
conformity quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1476606466
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
conformity quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1476597759
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
conformity quotes by LYDIA MARIA CHILD-1476592095
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
conformity quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1476546774
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
conformity quotes by DR. SEUSS-1476438105
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
conformity quotes by COLIN WILSON-1476431812
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
conformity quotes by MARTINA NAVRATILOVA-1476430071
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
conformity quotes by RITA MAE BROWN-1476428780
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
conformity quotes by DOUG FLOYDSPOKESMAN REVIEW-1476427453
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
conformity quotes by CHRISTOPHER MORLEY-1476424678
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
conformity quotes by GLEN BEAMAN-1476423300
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
conformity quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1476421657
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
conformity quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1476380882
Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.
conformity quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1476379233
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.
Confidence Quotes by GENE FOWLER-1476377935
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Confidence Quotes by MARIANNE WILLIAMSON-1476376310
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Confidence Quotes by KAREN RAVN-1476369077
Only as high as I reach can I grow,Only as far as I seek can I go,Only as deep as I look can I see,Only as much as I dream can I be.
Confidence Quotes by ALEXI KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOYCOLLECTED WORKS OF KOSMA PRUTKOV-->-1476356628
Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
Confidence Quotes by E.F. SCHUMACHER-1476355047
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
Confidence Quotes by SONYA FRIEDMAN-1476353627
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
Confidence Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1476352123
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." &
Confidence Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1476350632
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
Confidence Quotes by GEORGE SANTAYANA-1476347880
[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
Confidence Quotes by LOU HOLTZ AND JOHN HEISLER-1476338256
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Confidence Quotes by GEORGE GORDON-1476336910
As soonSeek roses in December, ice in June;Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;Believe a woman or an epitaph,Or any other thing that's false, beforeYou trust in critics.
Confidence Quotes by OLIN MILLERREADER'S DIGEST-1476335702
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Confidence Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1476332284
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
Confidence Quotes by FRANCIS BACON-1476282173
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Confidence Quotes by ANDRE DUBUS-1476277527
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Confidence Quotes by THOMAS A KEMPIS-1476266924
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Confidence Quotes by NICHOLAI VELIMIROVIC-1476261473
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Confidence Quotes by AFRICAN PROVERB-1476253171
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
Confidence Quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1476247428
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Confidence Quotes by JEAN SIBELIUS-1476245858
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
Confidence Quotes by HENRY MILLER-1476207068
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.
Confidence Quotes by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT-1476205327
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Confidence Quotes by NICHOLAS DE CHAMFORT-1476203563
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Confidence Quotes by EPICURUS-1476197728
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Confidence Quotes by AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE AND JULIUS CHARLES HARE-1476166652
Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.
Confidence Quotes by IZAAK WALTON-1476165212
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
Confidence Quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1476163490
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Confidence Quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1476097746
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
Confidence Quotes by ASTRID ALAUDA-1476033050
I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion.
Confidence Quotes by FROMCOOL RUNNINGS-1476028487
A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.
Confidence Quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1476026800
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
Confidence Quotes by ANDREW CARNEGIE-1476017721
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Confidence Quotes by PAULA COLE-1476016021
It's me who is my enemyMe who beats me upMe who makes the monstersMe who strips my confidence.
Confidence Quotes by MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE-1476001572
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Confidence Quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1475997421
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
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