Quote by Thomas Hardy

“You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane.”

— Deepak Chopra

“It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded...”

— Alain de Botton

“The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.”

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by.”

— R.A. Salvatore

“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Distinguish clearly truth from lies and fact from fiction.”

— Steven Redhead

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

— Susan Sontag

“However, they must also be able to count on respect and freedom from personal judgment.”

— Peter H. Johnston

“And yet in too many cases, this is what business has been reduced to: the artful packaging of meaningless distinctions as true differentiation.”

— Youngme Moon

“...for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use…

— Mo Yan