Conventionality quotes
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- Nishan Panwar100◆ He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson99◆ What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
- Eric Hoffer99◆ When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. Its not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
- William Somerset Maugham99◆ Conventionality is not morality.
- Charlotte Bronte99◆ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
- Charlotte Bronte99◆ What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
- George Weinberg99◆ The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Virginia Woolf99◆ Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell99◆ The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
- Florence Nightingale99◆ Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
- Francis Parkman99◆ Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes99◆ People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
- R Buckminster Fuller99◆ Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
- Steve Albini99◆ Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau99
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