Quotes About Individuality

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.

Most women have no characters at all.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

The proper study of Mankind is Man

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Dividuation would thus be the opposite: the dissolving of individual identity into distributed networks of information.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Are you saying being normal is being happy ? in that case , most people probably aren't normal

Every baby's the only in my observation of mothers.

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends, it is supportive, accepting parents who not only love their children unconditionally, but also don't make them feel as if their idiosyncrasies qualify as "conditions" in the first place.

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Awkwardness defines my life.

Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.

Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not.

Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.

To thine own self be true. SHAKESPEARE