Independent Thinker Quotes

#1. Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.

David McCullough

#2. 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.

#3. The bitch is an empowered woman who derives tremendous strength from the ability to be an independent thinker, particularly in a world that still teaches women how to be self-abnegating. This woman doesn't live someone else's standards, only her own.

Sherry Argov

#4. There is nothing to fear from truth ... Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

Ray Dalio

#5. Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

Sherry Argov

#6. I find it difficult to converse with robots.....Don't be afraid to be an independent thinker.

Just Jewel

#7. 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

#8. I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Mos Def

#9. Touch my tears with your lips. Touch my world with your fingertips. And we can have forever. And we can love forever.
- "Who Wants to Live Forever" by Queen

Queen

#10. I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Elizabeth Taylor

#11. Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend

Ann Kaiser Stearns

#13. Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

Franz Kafka

#14. The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

Martin Heidegger

#15. It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

Arthur Bremer