Individuality Quotes

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bri...

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robo...

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it...

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a c...

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself...

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim a...

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...

There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people ...

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, m...

In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another facto...

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou...

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or real...

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it...

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does n...

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

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the st...

Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seein...

The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a sol...

How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If ...

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of...

I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in tea...

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuc...

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender...

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act c...

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humo...

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s posses...

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and mo...

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of p...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition ...

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chi...

They had been talking about astrology, a forbidden science that was not pursued in the cloister. Nar...

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; i...

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I do...

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are ...

It never got weird enough for me.

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic...

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly f...

In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous...

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor las...

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ...

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every ...

So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spo...

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...

Your power is in your individuality, in being exactly who you area.

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my na...

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

Where's your will to be weird?

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if so...

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young p...

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single ...

I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We tak...

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is ...

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they ...

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and...

It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith t...

Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers,...

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it profes...

The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.

All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being ...

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and wha...

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not ...

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still ...

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or asham...

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.'I want to express myself.'The same is true for...

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. ...

We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--- those whom we obey, and those whom we l...

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always ge...

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don'...

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a ter...

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are