Nonconformity Quotes - Page 6

• The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

  Pico Iyer

  Oddities, Worry, World

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• I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Giving

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• The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.

  John Howard

  Wrestling, Reality, Self

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• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Science, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.23, Beacon Press

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• Be yourself, no matter what they say.

  Sting

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Style

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

  Shang Yang

  Independent, Pride, Extraordinary Person

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• God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Errors, Giving

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Madness, Variety

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.2, Booklassic

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• The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Giving, Stubborn

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

  Ezra Stiles

  Giving, Liberty, United States

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• I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

  Michael Landon

  Giving Up, Fighting, Bipolar

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• One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

  Edward Witten

  Beauty, Giving, Different

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• To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Done, Idle

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• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

  George Washington Carver

  Life, Cutting, Thorough Understanding

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• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Giving Up, Equality, Men

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• Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

  Vincent McNabb

  Hope, Spiritual, Giving

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Nurse

  Tristia

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• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

  Rene Dubos

  Self, Expression, Decision

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• Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Power, Men

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