Independent Minds Quotes

#1. Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

Robert H. Jackson

#2. Educators in China are increasingly concerned that their system isn't cultivating critical and independent minds.

William Deresiewicz

#3. I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."

Renata Adler

#4. Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

Baruch Spinoza

#5. National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

George F. Will

#6. I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Nelson Mandela

#7. We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

James Newman

#8. Even if the past exists as an independent reality outside the minds of those who write about it, we can never know that reality. Historians and writers of historical fiction attempt to fill in the gaps, to say: 'This is how it might have been.'

John Zanetti

#9. I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#10. There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Thomas Friedman

#11. 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

#12. objectivity arose from subjectivity - the recognition that two minds could have different representations of the world and that the world has an existence independent of either representation. This

Richard E. Nisbett

#13. Dr. Edward Clarke, a Harvard professor, said it was possible for a girl to study hard and do well in everything, but it would damage her health for the rest of her life, and her children would be shriveled.

Jacky Fleming

#14. Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

Anurag Kashyap

#15. Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Carl Sagan

#16. The concept of an independent spiritual realm does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.

Ursula Goodenough

#17. Oh, gods. Not the flying!"
"I heard you mounted my sister well enough."
"I want you never to make that statement again.

G.A. Aiken

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#19. Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Anthony Robbins

#20. Reality exists independent of human minds, but our understanding of it depends upon the beliefs we hold at any given time.

Michael Shermer

#21. 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

#22. In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. It's better to get busy than to stay bitter.

Charles F. Glassman

#24. Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection - the

Laurie R. King

#25. A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Rex Reed

#26. The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.

Leonard Mlodinow

#27. People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

Frank Carson

#28. 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

#29. I get into the office about 7 A.M., then I usually get out of the office a little after 7 P.M. I get home, I have dinner, then I spend a couple hours with my girls. I'm in bed about 9 P.M. That's the program!

Brad D. Smith