Think Independently Quotes

#1. I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

A.S. Byatt

#2. Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#3. I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

Jean Craighead George

#4. To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.

Nathaniel Branden

#5. 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

#6. Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.

Hugh MacLeod

#8. I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

Joanna Lumley

#9. Get to know how to rely on yourself and think independently and never wait for savior

Sunday Adelaja

#10. 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

#11. My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#12. 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

#13. Think independently and put the country first.

Mick Cornett

#14. When you become ministers, teach your people how to think independently without relying on you for instructions. Don't be a leader who tries to control people. Do not limit your people, but provide a creative environment for them to take the initiative

Sunday Adelaja

#15. To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Ray Dalio

#16. To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

Ray Dalio

#17. Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.

Debasish Mridha

#18. If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Culture is a virus. It distorts your view of the world and destroys your capacity to think independently.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#20. A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#21. I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

Ray Dalio

#22. 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

#23. In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

John Stuart Mill

#24. Don't fear your weaknesses - God supplies all the strength you need. Be afraid of those moments when you think you're independently strong.

Paul David Tripp

#25. I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

Michael Ledeen

#26. There are people.
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

Alan Moore

#27. 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

#28. I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

Janet Suzman

#29. The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water.

Olivia Laing

#30. 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

#31. The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

Two Chainz

#32. 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

#33. I always think that it's wrong to put images of my protagonists on the cover of my novels because readers can identify with characters only if they are given the chance to imagine them independently.

Orhan Pamuk

#34. I love what I do, and I don't think I'm the guy who can do, like, a movie a year and that's it. I don't know what I'd do! I've already put stuff independently on the Internet cause I'm bored! I just want to keep going!

Terry Crews

#35. Think positive and work by yourself independently, so you could avoid being someone else's burden.

Saaif Alam

#36. I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

Laura Lippman

#37. Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right.

David Cameron

#38. It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

Chris Hedges

#39. 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

#40. I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.

Jamshyd Godrej

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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