Independent Thinking Quotes

That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

To think is to differ.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

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.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

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.

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!