Quotes About Individuality

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

You don't have to understand the world. You just have to find your own way around in it.

Intellect has powerful muscles, but no personality.

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude... ~ Einstein

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Bir insan?n marÅŸ eÅŸliÄŸinde uygun ad?m yürümekten keyif alabilmesi, onu küçümsemem için yeterli bir nedendir. O büyük beyni, ona bir yanl??l?k sonucu verilmiÅŸtir.

Svako je genijalac. Me?utim ako prosu?uješ ribu na osnovu njene sposobnosti da se penje uz drvo ona ?e ceo život provesti u ube?enju da je glupa.

Ognuno è un genio. Ma se si giudica un pesce dalla sua abilità di arrampicarsi sugli alberi lui passerà tutta la sua vita a credersi stupido.