Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Where's your will to be weird?

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.