Quotes About Individuality

Learn what you are and be such.

Become what you are.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

L'amicizia è animale da compagnia, non da gregge.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

And yet," said he, "how can a man take care of his own horse or furbish up his spear and helmet, if he is unaccustomed to using his hands on his own dear person? Know ye not," said he, "that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

I don't need a friend who change when I change, who nod when I nod. This is something than my own shadow can do.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

You're sweet, Leo," said Jaya. "But how do you know the you in the world where I'm not me isn't saying the exact same thing to the not-me me right now?" "I don't. But I don't care what he's saying because he's not me. He's just some other guy saying something to some other girl who isn't you. Or maybe he's the girl and you're a guy in which case he's some other girl saying something to some other guy who isn't you," I said. "It has nothing to do with us.

Polly Young-Eisendrath

He has ' le coeur comme un artichaud '. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' ' Oui . He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.

he was reminded over and over how the best part about living was that others could not know your thoughts...

I am not a piece of jewelry to be worn so that others will admire you. If you choose to continue … you must also remember that when jewelry is displayed … it can be stolen.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's: It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

Jangan panggil aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki... Namun bukan berarti aku tak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai...

Ilmu pengetahuan, Tuan-tuan, betapa pun tingginya, dia tidak berpribadi. Sehebat-hebatnya mesin, dibikin oleh sehebat-hebat manusia dia pun tidak berpribadi. Tetapi sesederhana-sederhana cerita yang ditulis, dia mewakili pribadi individu atau malahan bisa juga bangsanya. Kan begitu Tuan Jenderal?