Individuality Quotes

“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Every plant is an individual.

Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.”
― Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.'

'But should you wish yourself to be like him?'

'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.”

--Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990”
― Zeena Schreck

“Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only one individual.”
― David Bedrick, Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology

“Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins”
― Nancy S. Mure

“I can be a better me than anyone can.”
― Diana Ross

“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and
modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and
controlled by the State should only exist, if it exist at all, as one among
many competing experiments, carried on for the purpose of example and stimulus, to keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.”
― Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth

“I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

“Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could make the Soviet Union stagger, but we could lose our congress, our president, and our general staff and nothing much would have happened. We would go right on. In fact we might be better for it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people's individuality. Just because they're not on your path doesn't mean they are on the wrong track.”
― Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

“Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“You are the gift that only you would have to give.”
― Silvia Hartmann

“Nothing is the same.”
― Silvia Hartmann

“Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique individuality and personal identity”
― R. Alan Woods, Apologia: A Collection of Christian Essays

“See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.”
― Paul Palnik, Eternaloons: The Palnik Anthology

“Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins”
― Nancy S. Mure

“كنت سأبقى في نطاق العالم الذي أعرفه، فأرى الأشياء من خلال عيون زملائي في الرحلة، و يتشغل عقلي بمقاومة انطباعاتهم ن فيعجز عن تكوبن فكرة تخصني”
― Ahdaf Soueif,أهداف سويف, The Map of Love

“tetaplah prinsipil walau berada diantara berbagai pemikiran yang bertolak belakang”
― Kartika Nirmala 2012

“People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.”
― Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, All We Know of Love

“The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.”
― Oscar Wilde