Top 60 Independent Mind Quotes
#1. To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.
George Carlin
#2. An INDEPENDENT Mind ...
... is a terrible thing to waste
Dana Gore
#3. It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
#4. True leadership, true and genuine leading requires intelligence, an independent mind, the ability to delay gratification, the ability to think long term, and above all else a spine.
Aaron Clarey
#5. Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
Ai Weiwei
#6. You are an independent mind in this universe that can do everything and anything you have ever dreamed of.
Dan Howell
#7. The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.
Manuel De Landa
#14. The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities...and that they interact by quantum physics.
Karl R. Popper
#15. Keep your mind free and independent even when someone wants to imprison your body.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
William Whewell
#17. ...concepts have three fundamental properties - contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction - which independent things do not. To produce a mental world from the physical world, the physical world must first explain how contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction can arise.
Ashish Dalela
#18. A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.
Caryl Parker Haskins
#19. If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.
Amy Carlson
#20. It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
Ben Folds
#21. More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos.
Leonard Seet
#22. If moral values amount to nothing but subjective phenomena of the human mind without independent meaning and existence - a position held by a variety of naturalist, positivist, and pragmatist philosophers - one never can be found lacking in light of an objective standard of moral values.
Reinhard Hutter
#23. Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
Jean Piaget
#24. Apart from thought, there is no independent entity called "world." Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and then withdraws it, likewise, the mind projects the world out of itself and then withdraws it back into itself.
Ramana Maharshi
#25. Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in an
independent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements of
mind, made real.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#26. 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
#27. There are 2 types of artist:
those who create for others in mind
those who create for themselves
either way, none are truly independent.
Natasha Tsakos
#28. I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
Ryan McGinley
#29. Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
John Locke
#30. We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing ...
Thubten Yeshe
#31. Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.
Piet Mondrian
#32. Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
Robert Redford
#33. All the action adventure girls have red hair," he said. "Whenever it is an independent girl, not a sidekick person, when she has her own mind or does as good as the guys, she has red hair.
Marion Roach
#34. The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures
these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.
Howard Mumford Jones
#35. The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.
David Hume
#36. To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies ... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.
Viggo Mortensen
#37. We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.
Jane Rosenthal
#38. The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
Jim Sturgess
#39. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. Harris
#40. No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
Albert Einstein
#41. Happiness is created and not found, it's a state of mind and in its best form, it stands independent of life circumstances.
Jaeda DeWalt
#42. The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
Maria Montessori
#43. Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.
Wadah Khanfar
#44. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#45. 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 ...
Leo Tolstoy
#46. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public's mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media.
Daniel Kahneman
#47. Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
Edward Abbey
#48. There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
Charles Hermite
#49. Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.
Pearl Zhu
#51. I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.
Eva Mendes
#52. I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.
Gautama Buddha
#53. I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
Nelson Mandela
#54. I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
Neko Case
#55. The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.
Thomas J. Stanley
#57. If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadter
#58. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#59. 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
#60. I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.
Marta Kristen
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