As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You don't need to try so hard to fit in when you know that you were born to stand out... — Mee Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Waring: Reflections in this mirror maybe distorted by socially constructed ideas of beauty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself…His task was to discover his own destiny -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution.… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not… — Jaleel White 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
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white… — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
“I understand the need for conformity. Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to… — David Thorne Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them.… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
You hold yourself in the esteem of other people's opinion. Why do you've to gain their respect and admiration, what purpose have… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
