Nonconformity Quotes - Page 6

• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Science, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.23, Beacon Press

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• I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Giving

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Success, Business

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Done, Idle

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• Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Madness, Variety

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.2, Booklassic

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• Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stress, Warrior, Effort

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Giving, Stubborn

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

  Ezra Stiles

  Giving, Liberty, United States

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• I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

  Michael Landon

  Giving Up, Fighting, Bipolar

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• One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

  Edward Witten

  Beauty, Giving, Different

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• He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

  Shang Yang

  Independent, Pride, Extraordinary Person

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• The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Humanity, Aspiration, Human Condition

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• Be yourself, no matter what they say.

  Sting

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Style

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.

  John Howard

  Wrestling, Reality, Self

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• The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

  Pico Iyer

  Oddities, Worry, World

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• Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Home, Giving

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• Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

  Carter Burwell

  Death, Giving, Our Society

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Nurse

  Tristia

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• Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Heart, Hot

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Power, Men

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• Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

  Vincent McNabb

  Hope, Spiritual, Giving

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