Think For Yourself Quotes
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“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Jon Krakauer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1430856379i/1235._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”
― Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
― Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”
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“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Marilyn vos Savant](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207597466i/44295.jpg)
“I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?”
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![Liezi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1433897799i/4736651._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Let your eyes see what they see, not what others want you to see. Let your ears hear what they naturally hear, not what others want you to hear. Let your mouth speak your mind freely and not be constrained by other people's approval or disapproval. Let your mind think what it wants to think and not let other people's demands dictate your thoughts. If your senses and your mind are not allowed to do what they want to do naturally, you are denying them their rights. When you cannot think, sense, feel, or act freely, then your body and mind are injured. Break these oppressions, and you will cultivate life.”
― Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
― Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
![Aldous Huxley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547138835i/3487._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.”
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.”
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![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination.”
― The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
― The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
![Charles M. Schulz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198590750i/209672._UY200_CR51,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Well from now on, Linus think for yourself... Don't take any advice from anyone!”
― Peanuts Guide to Life: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Best-Loved Cartoon Characters
― Peanuts Guide to Life: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Best-Loved Cartoon Characters
![Aldous Huxley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547138835i/3487._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Unless you're steadily and unflaggingly cynical about the solemn twaddle that's talked by bishops and bankers and professors and politicians and all the rest of them, you're lost. Utterly lost. Doomed to personal imprisonment in your ego- doomed to be a personality in a world of personalities; and a world of personalities is this world, the world of greed and fear and hatred, of war and capitalism and dictatorship and slavery. Yes, you've got to be cynical, Pete. Specially cynical about all the actions and feelings you've been taught to suppose were good. Most of them are not good. They're merely evils which happen to be regarded as creditable. But unfortunately, creditable evil is just as bad as discreditable evil. Scribes and Pharises aren't any better, in the last analysis, than publicans and sinners. Indeed, they're often much worse.”
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
“If you cannot think for yourself, then it’s most likely that you are watching your television system right now. But if you can think for yourself, then it’s most likely that the system is watching you right now.”
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![Ray Bradbury](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445955959i/1630._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what
I've asked you.”
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I've asked you.”
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“One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.”
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![Arin Murphy-Hiscock](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1320945357i/231464._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others. --Gregory Michael Brewer”
― Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft
― Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft
![Timothy Leary](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429657521i/47718._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All of this educational work was enormously successful. Millions of Americans accepted the "head philosophy," the belief that Ego and "Social Reality" are neural fictions.”
― Neuropolitique
― Neuropolitique
“Once you learn how to think for yourself and stop blaming anyone or anything for what happens in your life, you’ll be forever free.
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![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Mrs Windermere: Can you imagine what people would say?
Mrs Erlynne: if we're always guided by other people's thoughts what's the point of having our own?”
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Mrs Erlynne: if we're always guided by other people's thoughts what's the point of having our own?”
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