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  • In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

    "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.
  • Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

    Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.337, Courier Corporation
  • Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

  • Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.27, 谷月社
  • At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

  • Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

    Education   Wise   Clever  
    Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.53, St. Martin's Press
  • Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 09, 2013
  • It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

  • A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2221, Manonmani Publishers
  • You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

    Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons
  • When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

    Art   Stars   Confused  
  • The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

    War   Party   Independent  
    George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”
  • Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.

    "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial". Book by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, 1997.
  • Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

    Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.106, Routledge
  • The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社
  • The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

    Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books
  • Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

    Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.5, Macmillan
  • When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

    Caroline Myss (2013). “Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential”, p.33, Harmony
  • Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

    Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”
  • TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

    Independent   Tvs   Urges  
  • A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

    Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK
  • Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.

  • Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

  • The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.

  • I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  • I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

    Cranford ch. 14 (1853)
  • Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

    Wisdom   Silly   Reading  
    Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House
  • People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

    Emma Goldman (1914). “The Social Significance of the Modern Drama”
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