999 Quotes About Individuality

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

My mother said to me, ''If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. --Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.