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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this… — Anonymous 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
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
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 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
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. — Janos Bolyai Copy Share Image
The makeup of life; to smother yourself with superficial beliefs so you can be accepted by society. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more… — Graham Freudenberg Copy Share Image
“If you believe in an idea that others find radical, don’t let fear keep you from stepping outside of conformity.” — Chitra D. Nawbatt Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I lead with the knowingness that my reality conforms to my wishes and desires instantly.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image