29 Quotes About Thinking-for-yourself






  • Author Tara Westover
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    I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless model. I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself. Books that were not of God were banished; they were a danger, powerful and irresistible in their cunning.To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration.

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