Independent thought Quote by Teresa Stover

Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to learn and research for yourself, it tends to be safer for exploitative…

— Teresa Stover

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain…

— John Dewey

Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

— Anne Scott

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

— Jean Illsley Clarke

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

— Charles William Eliot

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

— Anonymous

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

— Brian Tracy

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is…

— Harry S. Truman

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

— Madeleine Albright

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

— Alfie Kohn

In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be…

— Stephen R. Covey