Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity…

“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility…

— George Santayana

“To be able to think freely isn't a crime, it's a gift. A real privilege; one not enjoyed by a vast majority of people…

— Mamur Mustapha

“To understand why I jumped from the Mormon wagon train requires an understanding of what Mormons are and how they think. While Mormons have…

— Steve Benson

“Spirituality is about being awake. It’s the attempt to transcend the mundane, sleepwalking experience of life we all fall into, to tap into the…

— Dale McGowan

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature…

— Anthony Collins

“Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a…

— Anonymous

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

— Matthew Arnold

“I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes with wonderful…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.”

— Seamus McDuff

“They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“freethinking as we’d like to think we are. The world of absolute truth is fact-based. The world of the culturescape is opinion-based and agreement-based.…

— Vishen Lakhiani

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

— John Lasseter

“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

— Andrei Amalrik

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

— Ray Bradbury

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead