Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS.
Nicholas TharcherTags: philosophy dissent metaphysics independent-thought
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo GalileiTags: science dissent reasoning independent-thought scientific-method truth-telling
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert EinsteinTags: dissent freedom-of-thought skepticism independent-thought
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...
Leo TolstoyTags: honesty independent-thought
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert EinsteinTags: independent-thought
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
Albert EinsteinTags: reading diversity independent-thought
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A.A. MilneTags: thinking independent-thought
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: humor reasoning independent-thought self-trust
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: fear liberty power freedom democracy thought oppression dictatorship government independent-thought
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