Aberration Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aberration Conformity Growth Human progress Humans Nature of man Progress Wisdom
“Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism” — Yahya Mohamed Copy Share Image
Progress depends on our changing the world to fit us, not the other way around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen… — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself… — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any… — Andrea Thompson Copy Share Image
[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
It might be comforting to assume that intolerance is an aberration within Islam but discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslim is in fact… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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