Quotes about Nonconformity

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

Truth is truth. If a thousand people believe something foolish, it is still foolish! Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion. I have found that it is better to be alone and acting upon the truth in my heart than to follow a gaggle of silly geese doomed to mediocrity.

Do not rush to follow the crowd, it might be a funeral procession

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.