Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
ROBERT ANTHONY, The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
MARK TWAIN, quoted in Greg Tanghe's Pearls
The conformist is filled with the need for approval. He can never get enough. He runs from one person to another seeking compliments and endorsements for his behavior and actions. As a child, he turned to parents and teachers; when he started to work, to his boss and fellow workers; in marriage, he turned to his mate. He must always have someone around to pat him on the head and tell him he is doing a good job. This bolsters up his poor self-esteem.
ROBERT ANTHONY, The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
IVAN TURGENEV, quoted in 20,000 Quips & Quotes
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.
VOLTAIRE, quoted in William R. Shad's The Whole Truth
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD, quoted in 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out...
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