If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

If someone gives you ruled paper, write the other way.

— Ali

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life…

— Juan Ramón Jiménez

I sit with crisp lined paper and a pencil in my hands. The once clean paper is dotted red with the blood from my…

— Leslie

“. . if you are given lined paper, write crosswise. At least occassionally.”

— Michael Dirda

“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out…

— John Locke

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had…

— Ellis Paul Torrance

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain…

— John Dewey

“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought.…

— Carl Sagan

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

— Henry Steele Commager

“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”

— Voltaire

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

— Leon Blum

My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

“Crimes against women won’t stop! As women gain more independence (both in thought and in spirit), castration anxiety will act out and will always…

— Mallika Nawal