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  • I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

  • Think for yourself and question authority.

    Love   Life   Spiritual  
    Timothy Leary's track on Audio album "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture", 1989.
  • No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  • Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

    Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.320, Princeton University Press
  • Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.

    Honesty   Yoga   Book  
    B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.16, Rodale
  • Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

    Jesus   Thinking   Long  
    Brian D. McLaren (2009). “More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations”, p.11, Zondervan
  • But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

    Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.295, Pan Macmillan
  • Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business isn’t paint by numbers. You have to think for yourself. You have to invent yourself. You have an inferred fiduciary mandate to yourself, and that means, it’s your responsibility to learn people skills, and language skills, in order to increase your chances of success. You also have to be at the right place, at the right time, with the right thing. Mostly and invariably, the real product you’re going to be selling is….you.

  • Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We are free to develop our own hypotheses, which should be based in available evidence. When it comes to faith, have faith in yourself. And don't forget to love, laugh, be kind to each other. Don't take things so seriously, especially yourself. If the universe is a cosmic joke, remember to giggle. And remember to be astonished.

  • The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

  • That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

    Matthew Quick (2013). “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock”, p.30, Hachette UK
  • Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight.

  • A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

    Tyrants   Library   World  
  • I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

    Joe
    "Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate". Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, CRCRadio.net, 2002.
  • Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

  • Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

    Thinking   Want   Causes  
    "Song:"Think for Yourself"("Rubber Soul")". 1965.
  • One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

  • A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

    Book   Writing   Thinking  
  • Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”
  • Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas.

    Believe   Book   Thinking  
    "Ziggy Marley Explains His Identity". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.
  • The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  • I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

  • It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.

  • Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer...

    David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.
  • You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

    Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.130, Penguin
  • Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.

    Teacher   Thinking   Two  
    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

    Thinking   People   Mind  
  • Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

  • Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

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