Independent Thought Quotes
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Independent Thought Quotes & Sayings
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
— Ann Brashares
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
— Emma Goldman
All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.
— Aeriel Miranda
I'll not listen to reason ... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.
— John Paul DeJoria
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
— Richard Dawkins
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.
— Hermann Hesse
Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.
— Charles F. Glassman
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.
— Don Nickles
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
— Albert Einstein
Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
— Anne Frank
All the dreams you show up in are not your own.
— Gil Scott-Heron
The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
— Markus Zusak
Never blindly believe, never blindly follow.
— Alex Treacher
Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.
— Seymour Cassel
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
— Miguel Ruiz
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
— Frank Beddor
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4)
— Jonathan Lethem
Be tough minded but tenderhearted.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.
— Ann Aguirre
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
— Christopher Hitchens
The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.
— Auliq Ice
People say, "What's it like to be a minority of one, or a kick-bag for the Internet?" It washes off me like jizz off a porn star's face.
— Christopher Hitchens
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
— Benjamin Franklin
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
— Britt Daniel
Life demands more thinking than remembering.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
— James Baldwin
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.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
— Emma Goldman
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
— Bennett Cerf
Your heart's Brain has independent thought which can create a life of tranquil bliss.
— Steven Redhead
I have sometimes thoughtthat under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know! — Thomas Hardy
I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;I recognize it's time to mount a different horse. — Mie Hansson
