Independent Thought Quotes

41 Independent Thought quotes by 35 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. — Galileo Galilei
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. — Emma Goldman
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. — Albert Einstein
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! — Bob Marley
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. — Albert Einstein
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
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
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
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. — Sue Grafton

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