Independent Thought Quotes
41 Independent Thought quotes by 35 unique authors
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
— Richard Dawkins
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest…
— David McCullough
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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
— George Orwell
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Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging…
— Chin-Ning Chu
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A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us,…
— Bell Hooks
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Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical…
— Albert Speer
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Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and…
— Derek R. Audette
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
— Emma Goldman
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
— Emma Goldman
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
— Albert Einstein
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
— Bob Marley
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
— Albert Einstein
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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is…
— Albert Einstein
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You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts…
— Winston Churchill
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To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
— Sue Grafton
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