conformity quotes by HENRY BESSEMER (DISCOVERED NEW METHOD OF PRODUCING STEEL)-1477380208
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
conformity quotes by VINCENT VAN GOGH-1477378928
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
conformity quotes by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES-1477367845
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
conformity quotes by EDGAR WATSON HOWE-1477327039
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
conformity quotes by ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS-1477325510
Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
conformity quotes by JOHN F. KENNEDY-1477319721
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
conformity quotes by GEORGE S. PATTON-1477298932
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
conformity quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1477294725
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
conformity quotes by CARL SANDBURG-1477291611
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."
conformity quotes by ROBERT PEEL-1477288656
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
conformity quotes by AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE AND JULIUS CHARLES HARE-1477286790
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
conformity quotes by GRACE HOPPER-1477243726
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
conformity quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1477242282
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Courage Quotes by WINSTON CHURCHILL-1477240521
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Courage Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1477238426
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Courage Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON(THANKS-1477236916
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
country quotes by VITA SACKVILLE-WEST-1477235180
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
country quotes by WILLIAM HAZLITT-1477233401
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
conformity quotes by LA BRUYERE-1477229923
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
conformity quotes by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN-1477228163
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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.
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 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 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.
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