Quotes about Individuality
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
— John Ortberg
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
— Joseph Campbell
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
— Kesha
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.
— Paulo Coelho
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.
— Henry B. Eyring
Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.
— Wayne Dyer
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)
— Albert Einstein
It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
— Albert Einstein
Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
— Albert Einstein