Being free Quote by W. Arthur Lewis

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

— Erich Fromm

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress,…

— Bertrand Russell

“Society at large is staggeringly obtuse. If one simply looks to others for their opinions, they lose the ability to think critically for themselves.…

— Kerri Maniscalco

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

— Oscar Wilde

“Any judgment born of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is accepted.”

— Sov8840

“Don’t you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver…

— Dale Carnegie

Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show…

— Alan Briskin

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

— Isabelle Kocher

“Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come…

— David duChemin

“The single greatest threat to human progress isn’t a lack of original ideas; it’s our obsession with familiarity — with status quo thinking.”

— Jen Fraser

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

— Saul Bellow

Cognitive bias is the biggest self-imposed obstacle to progress, not only for oneself but in the end, for all mankind.

— Anonymous