64 Quotes About Independent-thinking

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

Even a book that is made up of only untruths can greatly improve us intellectually.

I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor...And you want the flavor!

The way most people use and are used by their minds gives substance to the belief that we are barely evolved apes.

All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. -R. Raskolnikov

Our books can know and remember for us, but cannot think for us.

The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.