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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“All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.”
“It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true, but many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.”
“Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?”
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.”
“I’d rather be right than consistent.”
“The messenger is the message.”
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
“Through doubt we arrive at the truth.”
“Judge not by the number, but by the weight.”
“One sign you haven’t done enough reading is if you find yourself agreeing with whatever book you read last.”
“The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.”
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
“Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action.”
“Always the beautiful answer that asks a more beautiful question.”
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
