(1667 quotes found)
“The individual is always mistaken”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”
Louis Kronenberger
“The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it”
Quentin Crisp
“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”
William Pollard
“No one can transcend their own individuality.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings”
Clark Moustakas
“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.”
Joseph Brodsky
“Individuality is freedom lived”
John Dos Passos
“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality”
C.S. Lewis