Conform Quotes

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. - Edith Wharton

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. - Karel Reisz

[Most interestingly of all, she attempts to show that the novel as a form] has a certain political coloring, because it has to have a certain organization. ... that's a statement that says, 'conformity is not the highest good.' - Jane Smiley