Individuality Quotes - Page 4

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

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• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

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• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Graduation, Senior

  "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

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• Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only then his pure genius, his pure individuality, uncontaminated, unpolluted, is revealed.

  Rajneesh

  Unique, Ordinary, Genius

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• All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

  Paul Simon

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  "The Boxer," from Simon and Garfunkel's 1970 album Bridge over Troubled Water.

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• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Literature, Auditors

  "Stories, Essays, & Poems".

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• The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Errors, Half

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Character, Imagination, Independence

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• It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dream, Past, Civilization

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Rights, Government

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

  Bertrand Russell

  Life Is, Scales, Mankind

  Bertrand Russell (1944). “Pamphlets: The value of free thought; Ideas that have harmed mankind; Ideas that have helped mankind; The faith of a rationalist”

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• why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

  Oliver James

  Inspirational, Life, Trying

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• Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Forgiveness, Believe, Law

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• Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Taste

  "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction". Book by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller, April 27, 1999.

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• When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.

  Ani DiFranco

  Years, Orange, Doe

  Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

  Martial

  Wish, Lasts, Do Not Fear

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• I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Mean, Materials, My Own

  "A singular writer" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

  Bill Vaughan

  Army, Race, Shadow

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• I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

  Sandra Oh

  Fashion, Exercise, Slave

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2017

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