Think for Yourself Quotes
The crowd is often wrong, and it never apologizes. The man who questions what he is told and reaches his own conclusions cannot be led anywhere he did not choose. This Mindset path holds history's sharpest quotes on independent thinking. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
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“A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinion of sheep.”
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“The man who follows the crowd, will never be followed by a crowd.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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“When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead”
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“Don’t be a cog in someone else’s machine”
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“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
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“A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows public opinion.”
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“The strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears least.”
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“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
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“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
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“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.”
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“Believers are in groups. Seekers are alone.”
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“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“People have become the tools of their tools.”
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“No one ever changed the world by doing what they were told.”
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“I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.”
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“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.”
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“If you broke a lot of rules as a kid, you’d probably make a great entrepreneur.”
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“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.”
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
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“Clarity precedes mastery.”
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“Think for yourself and question everything.”
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”
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“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.”
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“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.”
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“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”
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“All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as self-evident.”
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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
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“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.”
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“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones.”
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“A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.”
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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.”
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
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“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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“Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
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“Do not block the way of inquiry.”
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“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
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“You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don’t, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after.”
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