It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's. — Anonymous 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
“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Independent thought is hard and liberating, thoughtless acceptance is easy and enslaving.” — Ronin Copy Share Image
“As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“The herd is the larger mass, the mindless portion that wanders off the cliff; the mob is the subset and the moshpit… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Higher level independence starts with the freedom and independence of the mind to think and act according to the highest principles of… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
Paste Magazine really embodies all that's left of a true independent thought and expression in music journalism in the states right now.… — Shawn Mullins Copy Share Image
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business: 1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring 3. Do the right thing 4.… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a… — Nicholas Tharcher Copy Share Image
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Einstein said, “ Imagination is more important than knowledge,” but you’d be hard-pressed to find schools or corporations that invest in people… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“„Hitler´s dictatorship“, he said, „differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Some parents whenever their children have an independent thought they wrap them up in warm ignorance and send them to bed” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
