999 Quotes About Individuality

We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.

I never met a Jew or a Muslim in my life. All I met were individuals.

We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.

He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton.

Why should we change that which makes us unique?

The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an accomplishment while being narcissistic is a failure.

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

Tradition: a cage for the free spirit.