Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. – Author Unknown
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. – Christopher Morley
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. – Martina Navratilova
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. – Colin Wilson
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. – Lydia Maria Child
Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. – Charles Dudley Warner
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. – Voltaire
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – J.K. Galbraith
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. – George Bernard Shaw
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. – Paul Vixie
Life presents you with but two avenues — you can either run with the mob or from it. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. – Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
