# Quotes about identity - Quotes: 9 - Authors: 9 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity ## Quotes > One of the thousand objections to the sin of pride lies precisely in this, that self-consciousness of necessity destroys self-revelation. A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopaedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism. Thinking about himself will lead to trying to be the universe; trying to be the universe will lead to ceasing to be anything. If, on the other hand, a man is sensible enough to think only about the universe; he will think about it in his own individual way. He will keep virgin the secret of God; he will see the grass as no other man can see it, and look at a sun that no man has ever known. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/one-of-the.md) Topics: [pride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride.md), [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. > > It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Carpet People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people/they-called-themselves.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > I refuse to consider myself to be anything more sharply defined than “human being,” and I feel that aside from overpopulation the most intractable problem we face in trying to avoid the destruction of civilization and humanity is the diabolical habit of people dividing themselves into tiny groups, with each group extolling itself and denouncing its neighbors. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 325 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/i-refuse-to-consider.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > Je ne m’appelle pas Fabantou, je ne m’appelle pas Jondrette, je me nomme Thénardier! je suis l’aubergiste de Montfermeil ! entendez-vous bien? Thénardier! Maintenant me reconnaissez-vous? [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md) · [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/je-ne-mappelle.md) Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since. Republican Party Reptile Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/man-is-the.md) Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Walden · p. 366 Topics: [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md), [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md) > My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God — nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx? [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Caesar and Cleopatra](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/caesar-and-cleopatra.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/caesar-and-cleopatra/my-way-hither.md) Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md)