Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 370 authors

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. — Charles H. Brower
I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to… — Bruce Hoffman
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. — Bruce Tulgan
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. — Walter Darby Bannard
Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools. — Thiruvalluvar
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it. — John Ortberg
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek… — Joseph Jaworski
The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So… — Marcus Aurelius
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a… — Ronald Reagan
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. — Vincent Van Gogh
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been… — Barry Goldwater
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. — Edwin Louis Cole
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have… — Claude Debussy
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and… — George Eliot
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to… — Siobhan Fahey

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