“To some people independent thought is heresy and critical thought blasphemy” — 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
“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
Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought. — Ann Aguirre 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
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized... — Emanuel Lasker 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
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
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein 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
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
The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that… — Jon Stewart 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
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of… — Rudolf Rocker 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
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Anonymous 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
“People say, "What’s it like to be a minority of one, or a kick-bag for the Internet?" It washes off me like… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” — Albert Einstein 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
“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
Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary… — Teresa Stover Copy Share Image
“evangelism of children nonetheless seeks to cut off the process of independent thought before it begins. It’s this aspect of religious indoctrination… — Dale McGowan Copy Share Image
Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved… — Timothy Leary 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
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image