“Monkey see, monkey do. Human being don’t see, human being don’t do.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy… — John Milton Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“It seems like this day and age is heading to a larger emphasis on conformity. The goal of life was to be… — Paul S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to… — John Mott Copy Share Image
Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty;… — Stephanie Pace Marshall Copy Share Image
Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
“Most social and religious systems reward conformity with approval and access. We're trained from the beginning of our lives, in almost every… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where… — Learned Hand 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
“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
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
It's better to be yourself and be an outsider than to lose your soul just to fit in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. — Karel Reisz Copy Share Image
