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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Climate Change

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

  James Madison

  Loss, Evil, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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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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• 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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• One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

  Franz Kafka

  Women, Struggle, Mean

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

  Carl Jung

  Tree, Meaning Of Life, World

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• Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

  H. E. Bates

  Girl, Garden, Curves

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• Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

  Richard Mant

  Son, Men, Departure

  Richard Mant (1828). “Biographical Notices of the Apostles, Evangelists and Other Saints: With Reflexions and Collects : Adapted to the Minor Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland”, p.396

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• My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Rosemary Treble, Vincent van Gogh (1975). “Van Gogh and his art”

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