“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
“Independent thought is hard and liberating, thoughtless acceptance is easy and enslaving.” — Ronin 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
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
“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
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“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
“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
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do… — David McCullough 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
“My feelings about women in general have been shaped by mother in particular--and Placidia, while nearly always loving and approachable to her… — Susan Rivers Copy Share Image
“I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has… — Albert Einstein 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
“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
“fundamentally, people do not prefer independent thought and the accompanying responsibility, but rather orders, subordination, and the accompanying exemption from responsibility. In… — Yoshiki Tanaka 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
“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
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin 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
“Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.” — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
“more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
