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Thinking Quotes by Ayn Rand
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think…
- A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their…
- I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the…
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're…
- Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of…
- Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence…
- Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
- Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be…
- No man can use his brain to think for another.
- It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute…
- What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray…
- [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of…
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