The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
- Carl Sandburg

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery… lurks a miserable cowardice.  Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
- E.H. Chapin

Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
- Ivan Turgenev

Our concern must be to live while we’re alive… to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
- Freda Adler

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.
- Raymond E. Feist

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery.  A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
- Clarence Darrow

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
- Judith M. Bardwick

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
- William Wordsworth

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
- Henry Bessemer

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
- Mary Wortley Montagu

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage.  But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us – and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
- Carl Sagan

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- Jim Hightower

Never assume the obvious is true.
- William Safire

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
- Nicolas Malebranche

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
- Carl Van Doren

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

I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- J.K. Galbraith

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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
- Bernard Berenson

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
- Aesop

If you want to look like the people next door, you’re probably smothering yourself and your dreams.
- Clive Barker

I guess I’ve spent my life listening to what wasn’t being said.
- Eli Khamarov

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
- H.G. Wells

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you’re locked up.
- Author Unknown

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton