Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Identity.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
Daniel DayLewis
I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.
Pat Day
I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
Chevy Chase
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert Humphrey
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Albert Einstein
I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Thomas Paine
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
Edward F. Halifax
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Thomas C. Haliburton
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.
Virginia Woolf
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Mark Rutherford
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
Brian Moore
What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose--so it seems.
I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
George Bernard Shaw
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.
Bruce Catton
We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
Swami Ramdas
