Independent thought Quote by David DiSalvo

“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes information to…

— David DiSalvo

“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in…

— William Hirstein

“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I never cease to be amazed at how common groupthink is among today's populace.”

— Colin M. McGroarty

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

— Anonymous

Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling,…

— Rudolf Rocker

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”

— Banksy

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

— Emma Goldman

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

— Ann Aguirre

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

— Sue Grafton

“Life demands more thinking than remembering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim