Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
People would rather be wrong than be different.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
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