Identity Sayings & Quotes
These identity sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. - Joseph A. Schumpeter
There is something more, the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity. - Maya Angelou
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. - James Arthur Baldwin
Belladonna: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
While man, in his realm, has less chance for personal relations than woman, he may have more opportunities for giving himself creatively in work. Woman, on the other hand, has more chance for personal relations, but these do not give her a sense of her creative identity, the individual who has something of her own to say or to give. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. - Erich Fromm
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real meditation is, the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilą une chose! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilą une chose! - Ezra Pound
Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Opiate: An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
When people get married because they think it's a long, time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. - Joseph Campbell
American society is now remarkably atomised. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics. - Noam Chomsky