Top 25 Quotes About Independent Thinkers
#1. The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar Fiedler
#2. I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
Haruki Murakami
#3. What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all - and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.
Richard Paul Evans
#4. In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
Franz Liszt
#5. Most people would like to think that they are independent thinkers and that they value freedom, but they actually want freedom from choice instead of freedom of choice.
Patrick King
#6. Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
James Cook
#7. Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.
Martin Frost
#8. The problem in turning independent thinkers loose on a matter is, they tend to go beyond the theoretical and seize the chance for independent action. Thus,
Laurie R. King
#9. Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.
Noam Chomsky
#10. Shapers" are independent thinkers: curious, non-conforming, and rebellious. They practice brutal, nonhierarchical honesty. And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.
Adam M. Grant
#11. The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
Havelock Ellis
#13. Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along
Janice Sims
#14. 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
#15. I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
Werner Herzog
#16. The rigorous process of learning to develop and ask questions offers students the invaluable opportunity to become independent thinkers and self-directed learners.
Dan Rothstein
#17. Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.
George Harrison
#18. OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
Linus Torvalds
#19. Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.
Pavlos, Crown Prince Of Greece
#20. Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
Peter York
#21. But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
Robert Graves
#22. There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
Naomi Watts
#23. Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.
Susana Martinez
#24. We like to think that we're independent thinkers, that we're unique individuals. The truth is, however, that the need to fit in and belong is wired into our brains and our biology.
Susan M. Weinschenk
#25. It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.
Tom Barrett
