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Quotes About Individuality

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.
~ Caitlín R. Kiernan
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
~ Carl Clinton Van Doren
You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.
~ Carolina Herrera
I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
~ Madame de Stael
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
~ Marcel Proust
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
~ Mark Twain
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
~ Natalia Kills
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
~ Pablo Picasso
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
~ Paracelsus
I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.
~ R. D. Laing
I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
~ Robert Henri
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
~ Havelock Ellis
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
~ Herbert Spencer
There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.
~ Herman Melville
I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
~ Jack Kirby