Top 25 Conformity Quotes of 176 - Page 4

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Thinking, Conformity

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Bill Watterson

Way, Dots, Conformity

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

Rumi

Light, Conformity, Grain

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.45, Penguin UK

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individuality, Conformity, Expenses

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

Paul Krassner

Self, Individuality, Conformity

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Oscar Wilde

Hands, World, Conformity

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.162, Oxford University Press on Demand

Take the tone of the company you are in...

Lord Chesterfield

Advice, Tone, Conformity

"Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

Leonard Sweet

Conformity, Unison, Chains

Leonard I. Sweet, Lance Ford (2011). “I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Andrew Cohen

Men, Two, Conformity

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

Shuntaro Tanikawa

Soul, Conformity, Wells

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Raoul Dufy

Law, Conformity, Hours

Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Reliance, Aversion, Conformity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.32

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity, Creativity, Conformity

R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

What we need is equality without conformity.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Needs, Conformity

Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.365, Spectra

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Kenneth Lee Pike

Principles, Conformity, Abstract

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Karel Reisz

Desire, Elements, Conformity

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Judith M Bardwick

School, Taught, Conformity

Judith M. Bardwick (1972). “Readings on the psychology of women”, HarperCollins Publishers

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

John Dryden

Conformity, Conform, Martyrdom

John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.31