Quotes About Uniqueness

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

No man knows himself as an original.

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.