Quotes about Individuality

Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

All that we have and are is one of the unique and never-to-be-repeated ways God has chosen to express himself in space and time.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.