Quotes About Individuality

Skulduggery shrugged. "When in doubt, wear a hat, that's what I always say.

There's an I in menagerie. - Black Annis

I think you're shorter than you were." - Clarabelle "Yes," said Scapegrace. "Because I'm in a jar. I'm just a head." Clarabelle shrugged. "We're all just heads, when you think about it. The only difference between us is that we have arms and legs and bodies and we don't live in jars like you do. It's a nice jar, though. Where did you get it?

There are three names for everyone. The name you're born with, the name you're given and the name you take.

And I have lifetimes inside me, I'm the girl you see standing here,and I'm a cranky old professor, and I'm a peace-loving man, and I'm a killer and a maid and a king and a peasant. I am a dozen more. You think you're old? You got nothing on me." - Tanith Low

I'm not a thing. I'm not an it. I'm a person. I am a her. - Stephanie (the reflection)

Valkyrie: "Not everyone sees things the way you do." Kenspeckle: "And what have I always told you about other people?" Valkyrie: (grinning) "They're idiots.

I don't need another guy telling me how great I am. I know how great I am. I'm me.

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

I am I plus my circumstances.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.

Be that self which one truly is.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

You must become like yourself.