Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The very first practice we [Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself ] did it was like, "Oh ok, I get it." We… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope… — Antonin Sertillanges 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
In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
