Divergent Quotes

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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.

Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

I am selfish. I am brave.

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.

You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

I think it's really important to look at the walk and not the talk, and if you look at the walk, our paths [with Hillary Clinton] are extremely divergent.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.

As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

Om meditation makes the mind spacious. It gives the freedom for focus and divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the center of human creativity.