Independent Thinking Quotes

Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.

Ellen Bass

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor...And you want the flavor!

Ze Frank

To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

rassool jibraeel snyman

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Progress is obviously the antithesis of independent thinking. For under independent or individualistic thinking, every man starts at the beginning, and goes, in all probability, just as far as his father before him. But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the whole of the past.

G.K. Chesterton

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School forces unique individuals to think, act, and, look alike.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is true that many young people who wrongly, that is, simply with abandon and unsolitarily, feel the oppressiveness of a failure and want to make the situation in which they have landed viable and fruitful in their own personal way—; for their nature tells them that, less even than all else that is important, can questions of love be solved publicly and according to this or that agreement; that they are questions, intimate questions from one human being to another, which in any case demand a new, special, only personal answer—: but how should they, who have already flung themselves together and no longer mark off and distinguish themselves from each other, who therefore no longer possess anything of their own selves, be able to find a way out of themselves, out of the depth of their already shattered solitude?

Rainer Maria Rilke

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.”--Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990

Zeena Schreck

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

Robert Graves

Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.

Pearl Zhu

Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.

Pearl Zhu

Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.

Pearl Zhu

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Independence can neither be created nor destroyed just like energy! It can only be transferred from a fearless, resilient, intelligent & visionary "form" to another, regardless of what gender you are born with. It's the energy that seeks to free your mind.

Vishwanath S J

There is beauty in thinking independently.

Debasish Mridha

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

A.E. Samaan

Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answer yourself.

Salman Mansuri

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example

Germany Kent

The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself ― not to Japan, not to anything. You may think that what you're doing is for the sake of the nation, but let something take possession of you like that, and all you do is bring it down.

Sōseki Natsume

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