Quotes About Individuality

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

My closest relation is myself.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.