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 | "A man doesn"t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is
no longer indispensable." | |
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Richard E. Byrd
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| "Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible
stupidity can usually be traced back to an organization." | |
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Jon Bentley
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| "Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their
absence an unexplainable peace." | |
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Anne Shaw
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| "Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none
other than "The Individual."" | |
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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| "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." | |
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Chuang Tzu
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| "If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward,
I will succeed." | |
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Unknown
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| "If I try to be like him, who will be like me?" | |
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Proverb
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| "It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the
individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own
convictions." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "It is only to the individual that a soul is given." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable." | |
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Bergen Evans
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| "Nature made him, and then broke the mold." | |
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Ludovico Ariosto
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| "Remember always that you have not only the right to be an
individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful
contribution in life unless you do this." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the
time." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "The Art of Happiness There was never a time when so much official
effort was being expended to produce happiness, and probably never a time
when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating and
personal qualities that make for it. What one m" | |
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William S. Ogdon
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| "The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I"m
against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "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." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other
sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his
fervent supporters." | |
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Walter Lippmann
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| "We don"t see things as they are, we see them as we are." | |
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Anaïs Nin
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| "Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their
dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their
desperate odd-fellow society." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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