Independence Of Thought Quotes

#1. The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emma Goldman

#2. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.

Albert Einstein

#3. Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done - occasionally what men have not done - thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

Amelia Earhart

#4. The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of thought and belief a logical next step.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#5. The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert

#6. True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who 'objectively' endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought.

George Orwell

#8. In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.

Bryce Courtenay

#9. A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

John Dewey

#10. Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

David Bronstein

#11. Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#12. The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Henry Steele Commager

#13. Besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Bryce Courtenay

#14. I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Carl Sagan

#15. When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

Albert Einstein

#16. The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#17. Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.

Charles F. Glassman

#18. The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#19. Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

Rush Limbaugh

#20. Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

Ray Bradbury

#21. When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

Luigi Pirandello

#22. A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Beverly Sills

#23. A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.

Richard Russo

#24. In every 1st October we Nigerians helps very few of us celebrate there independence, very. soon. we will celebrate our own.

Hamzatribah

#25. Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [ ... ] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.

Carey Wallace

#26. Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. ... No one can be a scientist ... if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

Jacob Bronowski

#27. She knew how fortunate she was to have her independence, and to have a disposition that cared so little for the opinions of others. Let them talk, she thought, as long as they also saw her holding her head high, and as long as she possessed the whip-hand of wealth.

Gordon Dahlquist

#28. The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

Auliq Ice

#29. When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.

Josh Lanyon

#30. [M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

John Locke

#31. Higher level independence starts with the freedom and independence of the mind to think and act according to the highest principles of knowledge and worthy traditions of a nation.

Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

#32. And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

Florence Converse

#33. The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

George Soros

#34. It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go.

Jo Baker

#35. There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ...

K. Hari Kumar

#36. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Joseph Heller

#37. A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

Rick Riordan

#38. She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others' responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort of service was owed to those whom he loved.

Meredith Duran

#39. When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he retains his own way of thinking. Language is the thought of a people.

Jose Rizal

#40. Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Voltaire

#41. I'm not a rebel. I just like finding solutions by myself - Nashira Jaynes.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#42. Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.

Heber J. Grant

#43. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?

Ayn Rand

#44. A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

Jay Leno