Independent Thinking Quotes

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!" "Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions." "My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system." "The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions." "The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice" "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions" "To find yourself, think for yourself" "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." "Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently." "The only advice that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another." "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "Don't just teach your children to read, teach them to question what they read" "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself." "And this I believe that the free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world" "Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you" "People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own. " "Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio" "You cannot believe in yourself if you let others do your thinking for you"