Quotes about Independent thought

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Culture is a virus. It distorts your view of the world and destroys your capacity to think independently. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller, Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. — Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is t — A.A. Milne
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological divers — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things tha — Leo Tolstoy
The undeniable paradox of human existence is that a person seeks closeness with other people while protecting his or her — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that g — Aesop
It is impossible to understand how millions and millions of people all obey a sickly collection of gentlemen that call t — Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it. — Banksy, Wall and Piece
To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy — rassool jibraeel snyman
The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so o — Slavoj Žižek
Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at leas — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have aro — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can le — Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
My innocence is wearin' thinBut my heart is growing strong. — Fifth Harmony
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman
All the dreams you show up in are not your own. — Gil Scott-Heron
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment