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Identity may refer

Social sciences

• Identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable
• Identity (social science), umbrella term used to describe an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity
• Cultural identity, person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
• Gender identity, also known as core gender identity, the gender(s) or lack thereof, that a person self-identifies with oneself
• Identity formation, the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual
• Identity politics, refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of self-identified social interest groups or minorities
• Law of identity, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
• National identity, belief in membership of a nation
  • Britishness
    • Scottish national identity
  • Canadian identity
    • Québécois nation motion
• Personal identity (philosophy), refers to the numerical identity of persons through time
• Sexual orientation identity, describes how persons identify their own sexuality

Business

• Accounting identity, calculation or measurement that must be true regardless of the value of its variables
• Corporate identity, "persona" of a corporation by way of branding or use of trademarks

Computer science

• Identity (object-oriented programming), describes the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects
• Digital identity, representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject
• Federated identity, assembled identity of a person's user information, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems
• Identity column, database field that uniquely identifies every row in the table and is made up of values generated by the database
• Identity management, administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to resources by placing restrictions on them
• Online identity, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites

Culture and the arts

• iD_eNTITY, manhwa series created by Son Hee-joon, along with Kim Youn-kyung, distributed by Tokyopop in North America
• Identity (album), 1984 album by Richard Wright and Dave Harris of Zee
• "Identity" (Burn Notice), second episode of the USA Network television drama series
• Identity (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack
• Identity (game show), a short-lived game show
• Identity, an episode of Legend of the Seeker.
• "Identity" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
• Identity (novel), by Milan Kundera
• "Identity", a song from the album Germ Free Adolescents by X-Ray Spex
• The name of the BNP magazine
• Identity (dj), a new england based hard dance disc jockey

Identity authentication

• Identity document
• Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
• Illegal resident, a spy assuming the false identity of a national

Mathematics

• Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
• Identity element, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
• Identity function, a function that does not alter its argument
• Identity matrix, a square matrix with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere

Religion

• Christian Identity, a Christian religious movement

See also

• All pages with titles containing "Identity"
• Biometrics
• Entity
• Identification (disambiguation)
• Secret identity (disambiguation)

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From Wikiquote

In philosophy, the self is the idea of a unified being which is the source of an idiosyncratic consciousness.

Sourced

• The Arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.
  • Francis Bacon. ‘On Love’, Essays (1597-1625)

• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
  • Francis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924), British philosopher. Aphorisms, No. 8 (1930)

• Cogito, ergo sum.
• I think, therefore I am.
  • Descartes Discours de la Méthode, Discourse on the Method (1637)

• Identity is an illusion, a temporary state. Everyone is searching for it, but it’s only a brief reflection in a very shallow pool of time.
  • Olivia Dresher (b. 1945), American poet and publisher. ‘Aphorisms by Olivia Dresher’ on, Olivia Dresher.com

• Self-correction begins with self-knowledge.
  • Baltasar Gracián. In maxim 69, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

• The best mirror is an old friend.
  • George Herbert Jacula Prudentum (1651) (17th Century English proverb)

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now - when?
  • Hillel, from Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations p. 459 (1972)

• Self: that invisible chain that snaps tight whenever we stray.
  • Yahia Lababidi (b. 1973), Egyptian-Lebanese essayist and poet. Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)

• Of course, "O'Blivion" was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names — names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate.
  • Professor Brian O'Blivion, in Videodrome, a 1983 film directed by David Cronenberg.

• To thine own self be true.
  • William Shakespeare Polonius, in Hamlet

• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
  • Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), Hungarian-American psychiatrist, writer and academic. The second Sin (1974)

• To love oneself is the begining of a life-long romance.
  • Oscar Wilde, 'Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young', (1894)

• Self-image is the beginning and ending of living, I think.
  • Henry Winkler (b.1945), American actor, producer and director. Stated in his appearance on, The One Show, BBC1 (UK) television talk show, 15th May 2009

Unsourced

• Do not repair another man's fence until you have seen to your own.
  • Anonymous

• If you love yourself others will hate you, if you humble yourself others will love you.
  • Anonymous

• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
  • Cecil Beaton

• The only reason I self-doubt myself is so others won't do it for me.
  • Brandy Erard

• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
  • Marcus Garvey

• If you don't love yourself, how can you expect others to see what's so beautiful?
  • Kelly Rowland

• Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing oneself is enlightenment.
  • Lao Tzu

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