Conforms Quotes
36 quotes by 31 authors
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A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity,…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely…
— Jon Katz
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Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be.…
— Parker J. Palmer
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).…
— Edith Wharton
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The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life…
— Kate Chopin
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Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
— Joan Didion
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Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which…
— Carl Linnaeus
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In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it,…
— Jonathan Dee
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His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know…
— Bridget Riley
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Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its…
— William Ellery Channing
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I've already had three calls today asking, 'Are you guys still ready to do business' ... And the answer is 'Yes.' I think everybody is…
— John Nash
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