Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 380 authors

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state — Augustus Hopkins Strong
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and… — Dan Barker
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with… — Aristotle
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon
Conformity is the ape of harmony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. — Louis Kronenberger
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. — Pablo Picasso
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality… — Lee Krasner
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!' — Ken Danby
Becoming is superior to being. — Paul Klee
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other… — Oscar Wilde
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity… — John Milton
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of… — Raoul Dufy
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied. — Lawrence Calcagno

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