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Individuality Quotes

"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
Harper Lee
"It is better to be a person, than a personage"
Henry James
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
"It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart"
Howard Gardner
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common"
John Locke
"Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom."
John Stuart Mill
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way."
John Stuart Mill
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
John Stuart Mill
"Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself"
Khalil Gibran
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Once you label me you negate me."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)"
Walt Whitman
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"
Walt Whitman
"I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create"
William Blake
"When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable"
Larry Ellison
"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men"
Charles Darwin
"I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be"
Joaquin Phoenix
"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself"
Peter Thiel
"Once you label me, you negate me"
Soren Kierkegaard
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
Margaret Mead
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