Quotes About Conformity

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

You follow voice of masses, Possibly you suppress your inner voice.

To find beauty, rise above conformity and find opportunities.

How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?

I didn't want to be different, even among the different.

Normalness leads to sadness.

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves.

Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one's daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.

A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty.

The beauty of life does not reside in certainty or conformity. It resides in the infinite possibilities of uncertainty.

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

You can never attain full awareness following the actions of the majority.

Thus the goal of nouthetic counseling is set forth plainly in the Scriptures: to bring men into loving conformity to the law of God.