Top 31 Quotes About Thinking Independently
#2. Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a deeply-involved citizenry thinking independently and holding the government to the highest standards.
Oliver DeMille
#3. Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Ralph Charell
#5. I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
Werner Herzog
#6. In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
John Stuart Mill
#7. The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
Albert Einstein
#8. I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.
Emo Philips
#9. I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they're in the same house, they live independently. I think that's how I live with the Chihuahuas.
George Lopez
#10. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
#11. For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
Plutarch
#12. Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side
Mark Twain
#13. Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
David Frost
#14. Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking
Albert Einstein
#15. Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
Bill Vaughan
#16. Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.
Oliver DeMille
#17. Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.
Alaric Hutchinson
#18. Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
Immanuel Kant
#19. I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.
Ray Dalio
#20. Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.
John Knowles
#21. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
Albert Einstein
#22. Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
James Surowiecki
#23. There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
#24. Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.
Dalai Lama
#25. Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.
Debasish Mridha
#26. The heat was so intense that my memory of it is not so much a sensation as a sound, a whine that rose to a dissonant keen with my head at its very center.
Cheryl Strayed
#27. To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
Ray Dalio
#28. To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.
Ray Dalio
#29. What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists interdependently with each other.
Gary Zukav
#30. I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.
Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
#31. Color ... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
Charles Baudelaire
