35 Quotes About Nonconformity

Being different does not have to be a bad thing. There is a lot of things that come along with being a non-conformist. Here is a look at some great quotes about nonconformity that are inspiring.

“A normal person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.”

“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”

“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

“Conform and be dull.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.”

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

“I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”

“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.”

“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.”

“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.”

“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.”

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”

“People would rather be wrong than be different.”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.”

“We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it.”

“We need – and should encourage and honour – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.”

“What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.”

“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.”

“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Leading a creative life is not easy. This can mean that many people view you as a non conformist. From your side of things, you are an independent and follower of no one.