We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.” — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“We gladly conform to the people's needs in all things if it can be done in conformity with the word of God… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Don't change your originality for the sake of others because no one else can play your role better than you! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“I like weird. Conformity bores but is inescapable for the most part. We all follow something, even if it is following the… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loveth mean and… — Henry Scougal Copy Share Image
Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Die Wissenschaft ist ein Land, welches die Eigenschaft hat, um so mehr Menschen beherbergen zu können, je mehr Bewohner sich darin sammeln;… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In… — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to impress that special someone, but if you can't get them by being yourself, then they can't be that special. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to stand out. It's better to be remembered for standing out in a crowd than to be forgotten for… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs. — Avram Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Schools breed conformity. They socialise children in a particular way, make them into cooperative team players with limited capacity to think for… — Sarah Singleton Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!' — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
