Top 100 Quotes About Free Thinking
#1. The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.
J.G. Farrell
#2. When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.
Ai Weiwei
#3. I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go. - Belly Conklin
Jenny Han
#4. Judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist.
Matt Groening
#5. If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
Auguste Comte
#6. Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.
A.E. Samaan
#7. Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.
David Karp
#8. Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.
Daniel Barenboim
#9. We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.
Dean Potter
#10. Common sense has less to do with free thinking
than it has to do with "right thinking.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.
Sara Shepard
#12. Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
Immanuel Kant
#13. 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
#15. He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.
Ian McEwan
#16. I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.
Richard Dawkins
#17. When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities.
Debasish Mridha
#18. If the party was so great and benevolent, why should it be so frightened of dissent or free thinking? Yet, they punished even the slightest opposition.
Rudi Wobbe
#19. It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.
Tom Robbins
#20. But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
E.L. Konigsburg
#21. 1974 was a crazy, hazy time for Alan Partridge. The Sixties had come to East Anglia and it was a time of free thinking, free love and in my case free university accommodation.
Alan Partridge
#22. Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush.
David Cross
#23. I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
Terence McKenna
#24. I am a free-willed, free-thinking, non-conforming subversive using the powers of intellect and common sense to not only question my environment but search for answers to those questions in order to share that knowledge with those around me for a better tomorrow.
R. Wolf Baldassarro
#25. What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Thomas Carlyle
#28. I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book ... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.
Maurice Cowling
#29. I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.
Justin Vernon
#30. Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods.
Christopher Hitchens
#31. The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.
Justin Vernon
#32. My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
Sara Maitland
#33. There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
George Berkeley
#34. China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
James Dyson
#35. The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
#37. Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
Richard Stallman
#38. I think that I'm allowing girls to be really free with their sexuality.
Miley Cyrus
#39. I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.
Donald Trump
#40. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
Seneca The Younger
#41. I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#42. A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.
Carmelo Anthony
#43. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.
Frederick Douglass
#44. I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.
Gene Wilder
#45. Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.
Nancy Kline
#46. Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.
George Carlin
#47. The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.
Eric Hoffer
#48. What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
Esther Dyson
#49. My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia
#50. To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
Aldous Huxley
#51. I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.
Gillian Roberts
#52. I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just bothers me. And, when one band or artist gives it away, it devalues the rest of the product from those who would like to make some money or a living from it.
Steve Mahoney
#53. Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
Peter Thiel
#54. Abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you
John Green
#55. The shift in my thinking began when I realized that truth sets us free and that Jesus is the truth. In
Neil T. Anderson
#56. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has - from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
Christopher Hitchens
#57. I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#58. That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#59. But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
Liane Moriarty
#60. I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
Zack De La Rocha
#61. God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
Marianne Williamson
#62. Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#63. When you say you love me, it doesn't matter.
It goes into my head as just chit-chatter.
You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free,
But what you say, I take none of it seriously.
MC Lyte
#64. If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.
Abhijit Naskar
#65. Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
Richard Brautigan
#67. I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm already a grandad, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#68. I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.
Kate Zambreno
#69. Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
John Green
#70. There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions.
David Icke
#71. I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.
Dana White
#73. We're not so free that we don't have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that's what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.
Martha Stewart
#74. Gaiaguys are free to think for themselves, and since their translations of our texts - even if these are of a preliminary nature - are sought for by many people, we see no reason for withdrawing our permission.
Billy Meier
#75. I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.
Emily Saliers
#76. I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.
Jim James
#77. The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
Anthony De Mello
#79. I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.
Greta Van Susteren
#80. Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
Nikola Tesla
#81. People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.
Pierre Alechinsky
#82. I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.
Peter Hessler
#83. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.
Abhijit Naskar
#84. Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#85. Here's what the kids get. They get free McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken for a year, and 52 six-packs of Pepsi. And I'm thinking, well, actually, it might be healthier if they were taking steroids.
David Letterman
#86. I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.
Jason Wade
#87. Black is an old wrinkled-face queen sitting on a porch while rocking away her last days, thinking of her grandchildren
Black is the old lady's grandchildren yelling "Revolution!" so that their grandmother would die free
Umar Bin Hassan
#90. Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger ... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#91. Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#92. When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
Rabindranath Tagore
#93. When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.
John Dieterich
#94. My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
William Styron
#95. What a funny old world,
Thinking they could cage her,
& make her fear her future;
Apprently they didn't know her well enough,
The cage, gave her wings to fly.
Nikki Rowe
#96. We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.
Richard M. Nixon
#97. (In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
Bill Gates
#98. As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
Henry Rollins
#99. One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference.
M.F. Moonzajer
#100. I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, "Yes! I get to have craft service every day!"
Blake Lively
