Individuality Quotes

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These ar...

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a d...

Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and...

For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear th...

they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of...

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole ...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accom...

A man is known by the books he reads.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to hi...

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in...

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another ...

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When...

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love yo...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the diffe...

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each in...

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your ow...

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me ...

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an...

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument hand...

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her m...

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civil...

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are th...

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an elec...

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to...

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at fi...

We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the sa...

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap...

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is a...

I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where ...

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espio...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is ...

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a str...

The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has na...

I'm me," she whispered. "Me"Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exa...

He recognized that need, in Odonian terms, as his "cellular function." the analogic term for the ind...

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...

She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not a...

When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe...

What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody...

Why--?" he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, "when they're so lovely--"She too looked ...

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary...

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the wo...

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angel...

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at leas...

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in...

I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and ...

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself...

There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other...

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the trut...

I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know i...

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the ...

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which preven...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an ...

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to ...

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the wall...

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good ...

If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting,...

So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with th...

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehea...

He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words...

Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a ne...

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its f...

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men d...

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the l...

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how compl...

They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of the...

There is another more psychological obstacle to the full development of love in the modern world, an...

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy ...

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived noti...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you wi...

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to min...

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criti...

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no ...

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live...

Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all ...

and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ...

for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is diffe...

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.