Independent Thought Quotes
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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“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, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
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“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
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“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."
(The Record Lie)”
― If I May
(The Record Lie)”
― If I May
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
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“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
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“Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.”
― Demian
― Demian
“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 completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
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“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”
― Wall and Piece
― Wall and Piece
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”
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“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS.”
― Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
― Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
― An Inland Voyage
― An Inland Voyage
“I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
― Cranford
― Cranford
“Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.”
― The Four Agreements
― The Four Agreements
“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
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