To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” — Banksy Copy Share Image
“we don’t see any examples of her taking independent thought or action to advance her career or to grow professionally.” — Erika Andersen Copy Share Image
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I’m supposed to overcome my disability to make it easier to manage for people who I don’t even want in my life.… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Demanding that all of us presume every defendant innocent outside of a courtroom is to demand that we stop evaluating facts, thereby… — Dan Abrams Copy Share Image
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“Despite the plethora of studies and papers written about teachers as learners (Paulo Freire comes to mind here4), the top-down structure of… — Jose Vilson Copy Share Image
Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to learn and research for yourself, it tends to be safer… — Teresa Stover Copy Share Image
“Just because the educational work of the Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Ranna," she said aloud, touching the first, the smallest bell. Ranna the sleepbringer, the sweet, low sound that brought silence in its… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Alignment, to us, means bringing pieces into the same line - the same direction. The metaphor is that a magnet will make… — Dave Logan Copy Share Image
“Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
