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It is important that you know yourself. With that in mind, check out the top 64 identity quotes.
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#64 – 60. Identity Quotes
64. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. – B.R. Ambedkar
63. Birds of a feather, flock together. – Robert Burton
62. Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are. – Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)
61. It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. – Jean Baudrillard
60. Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. – Catherine Drinker Bowen
#59 – 50. Identity Quotes
59. I used to take myself very seriously, now it’s all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something’s a big deal for us, it’s only become a big deal in the space between our ears. – Gillian Anderson
58. I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling. – Haruki Murakami
57. The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind. – Francis H. Bradley
56. That’s his style of hitting . If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him. – Yogi Berra
55. Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. – Tallulah Bankhead
54. Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known. – Chuck Palahniuk
53. A carpenter is known by his chips. – Jonathan Swift
52. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. – Charlotte Bronte
51. Everyone is the age of their heart. – Guatemalan (on youth and age)
50. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. – Oscar Wilde
#49 – 40. Identity Quotes
49. When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite. – Frank Herbert
48. The blocks of wood should not dictate to the carver. – Maori (on art and creativity)
47. Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all. – Bernard Baruch
46. An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin
45. The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are … and making peace with it. – Laurell K. Hamilton
44. To know another’s heart, you must first know your own. – Laurell K. Hamilton
43. I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – Wendell Berry
42. It’s great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently. – Keith Bellows
41. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. – English Proverb
40. Tell me whom you love and I’ll tell you who you are. – African-American (on life and living)
#39 – 30. Identity Quotes
39. If the shoe fits, wear it. – Nicholas Breton
38. In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. – Erik Erikson
37. It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. – Andre Guide
36. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. – George R.R. Martin
35. Where do you find the parts to make yourself into some other kind of person? Can it be something you read in a book, a gesture you see on the street? Half-smile of a teacher, the walk of a girl on the beach. – Amy Hempel
34. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. – Chinese Proverb
33. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. – Appius
32. A wild goose never laid a tame egg. – Gaelic (on authenticity)
31. It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient. – Josh Billings
30. You can’t judge a horse by its harness. – Thomas Fuller
#29 – 20. Identity Quotes
29. One flower makes no garland. – George Herbert
28. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare
27. Who knows who you are … A person is a novel: you don’t know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth reading to the very end. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
26. Sex … or lack thereof … is at the center of everyone’s identity, and once you’ve cracked someone’s desires, you understand them in full. – Arianne Cohen
25. You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself. – Pearl Bailey
24. We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages. – Donald Barthelme
23. Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. – Orson Scott Card
22. A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself. – Henry Ward Beecher
21. Hay is for horses. – Jonathan Swift
20. We boil at different degrees. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19 – 10. Identity Quotes
19. There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. – Pearl Bailey
18. We know what we are, but not what we may be. – William Shakespeare
17. Be not water, taking the tint of all colors. – Syrian (on authenticity)
16. The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen. – George S. Arundale
15. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. – Irish Proverb
14. Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. – Ben Franklin
13. We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that’s the next step to being dull. – Joseph Addison
12. Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. – William James
11. Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. – Saul Bellow
10. The devil looks after his own. – Scottish Proverb
#9 – 1. Identity Quotes
9. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut
8. Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. – Andre Gide
7. We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better. – Chuck Palahniuk
6. Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. – Ralph Blum
5. Never spend time with people who don’t respect you. – Maori (on courtesy and respect)
4. Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself. – Antonin Artaud
3. Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W. H. Auden
2. You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. – Deborah Boliver Boehm
1. You can’t change who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn’t. – Rob Thurman
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