Individual Quotes
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The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.
Hu Shih
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People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
Rita Mae Brown
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
Nan Hayworth
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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
William Griffith Wilson
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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
Mark Steyn
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
Eudora Welty
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What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
Natalie Cole
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
Zeno of Citium
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
Zeresenay Alemseged
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Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.
Rachel Dratch
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar Wilde
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To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.
Charles F. Haanel
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
Stephen Covey
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
Katharine Hepburn
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The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
John Stuart Mill
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
Naftali Bennett
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
T. J. Miller
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.
Mark Levin
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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
Bede Griffiths