Conformity Quotes

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We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must… — Newton N. Minow
If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being,… — Herbert M. Shelton
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it… — Sydney J. Harris
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity. — John Taylor Gatto
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is… — Solomon Asch
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good. — George Santayana
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity,… — Nathaniel Branden
With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible.… — Unknown Author
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance.… — Thomas a Kempis
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in… — Robert Adam
See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the whole world anew… — Patch Adams
Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances… — Jerry Bridges
None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification. — Matthew Henry
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts… — Ellen G. White
The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

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