64 Quotes About Independent-thinking

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

The way most people use their minds is analogous to an ambulance that is used only as an umbrella.

Most books are useful only in initiating, or maintaining, the rewarding habit of reading.

The vast majority of those who are respected for being knowledgeable have not produced even a single significant opinion or question of their own.

Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.

The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

Many of those who are advised to think outside the box do not even think inside the box.

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.