To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's. — Anonymous 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 than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought. — Bennett Cerf 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
“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
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent. — Frank Beddor 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
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
“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
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
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
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
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
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky 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
Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.” — Anaïs Nin 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
“I never cease to be amazed at how common groupthink is among today's populace.” — Colin M. McGroarty 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
“The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own; find the courage and forge your own path; your essence is… — Jesslyn Wolff Copy Share Image
