Identity Quotes

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

David Harold Fink

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

W. H. Auden

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

Orson Scott Card

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Clifford Geertz

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Maxwell Maltz

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become

Maxwell Maltz

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

Cassandra Clare

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Carl Gustav Jung

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

English Proverb

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Jean Rostand