Conformity Quotes and Sayings

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.
- Martin H. Fischer

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell

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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage.  It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
- Toller Cranston

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
- Peter Ustinov

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I’m wrong.
- Kin Hubbard

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
- Hermann von Helmholtz

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
- Carter G. Woodson

I may not be different, but I’m definitely not the same.
- William J. Dybus

On issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
- Chauncey Depew

Unless one decorates one’s house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
- D.H. Lawrence

Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
- Benjamin Franklin

I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side – I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
- Bethania McKenstry

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
- Hermann von Helmholtz

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

If you keep doing things like you’ve always done them, what you’ll get is what you’ve already got.
- Author Unknown

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