Deviation Quotes

• If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fun, Missing, Ifs

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  Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

  Frank Zappa

  Positive, Inspiring, Science

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• Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Climate Change

  Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.43

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• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Being Different

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.

  Robert Jensen

  Patriotic, White, Logic

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• For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Reality, Long, Mind

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• The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

  Edward Jenner

  Fitness, Health, Men

  An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox

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• Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Harmony

  "The Sign and Its Children" by Dejan Stojanovic, Znak i njegova deca, Prosveta, Beograd, "The Eye of a Sign," (p. 43), 2000.

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• Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Years, Individuality

  Eric Shanes, Andy Warhol (1991). “Warhol”, Gramercy Books

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• Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

  Joey Skaggs

  Hatred, Prejudice, Target

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• Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

  Tryon Edwards

  Truth, Path, Duty

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.313, Ravenio Books

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• The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Liars

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

  Theodor Adorno

  Differences, Discrimination, Conscious

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.37, Verso

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• The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

  Robert Barany

  Spontaneity, Spontaneous, Canals

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• The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

  Aristotle

  Science

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• Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Window, Ends

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.55

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• Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Enlargement, Invention, Fine

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• No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Copying, Peculiar

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1846). “The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice”, p.73

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• Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Thinking, Views

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• I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Errors, Realizing, Consciousness

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• Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

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• I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

  Dodie Smith

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Sitting

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.5, Random House

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• Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

  Alan Barth

  Art, Attitude, Spring

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• Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

  John Dewey

  Mediocrity, Uniforms, Originality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.176, Sheba Blake Publishing

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