29 Quotes About Thinking-for-yourself

Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.

This got me thinking - if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?

Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You've finished teething and there's the world: crack it open if you can.

Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.

I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so.

We all have our own way in a different thinking.