Think for Yourself Quotes

“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”

“The man who follows the crowd, will never be followed by a crowd.”

“Sapere aude. Dare to think.”

“Free thinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.”

“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.”

“If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.”

“Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.”

“The strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears least.”

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.”

“Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.”

“We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.”

“A tourist follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one. A true mountaineer takes responsibility for him or herself and goes where no one else is going.”

“Don’t be a cog in someone else’s machine”

“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones.”

“Think for yourself and question everything.”

“You will never know what you are capable of unless you think for yourself.”

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.”

“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.”

“Do not block the way of inquiry.”

“If you don't control your mind, someone else will.”

“Believers are in groups. Seekers are alone.”

“A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinion of sheep.”

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

“I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.”

“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”

“Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

“When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead”

“The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong - influence everything else you do...”

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“Making the decision to not follow a system or someone else's rules has allowed me to really dig into what my own strengths and gifts are without spending time feeling jaded or wasteful.”

“It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”

“Thinking is the hardest work in the world, which is probably why so few engage in it.”

“To think accurately you must separate facts from mere information, and then important facts from the unimportant.”

“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”

“Read less. Think more.”

“If you broke a lot of rules as a kid, you'd probably make a great entrepreneur.”

“There can be no real greatness without original thought.”

“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”

“Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.”

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”

“A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.”

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“No one ever changed the world by doing what they were told.”

“My definition of being properly educated is being right when the professor is wrong.”

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Have the courage to use your own reason.”

“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”

“Thinking is the hardest work in the world for those who have not formed the habit, but thinking can give pleasure and excitement.”

“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.”

“I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.”

“The ancestor of every action is thought.”

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.”

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.”

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

“I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.”

“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.”

“All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as self-evident.”

“What is is more important than what should be. Too many people are looking at what is from a position of thinking what should be.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows public opinion.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“Geniuses think productively, not reproductively. When confronted with a problem, they ask how many different ways can I look at it, how can I rethink the way I see it, and how many different ways can I solve it, instead of what have I been taught by someone else on how to solve this.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

“People have become the tools of their tools.”