Quotes about Individuality
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.
— Dolly Parton
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
— Aristotle
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
— Walt Whitman
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
— Francis de Sales
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
— Henry David Thoreau
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
— Pablo Picasso
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
— Mark Twain