Independent-thought Quotes

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will...

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single i...

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property,...

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by ...

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly...

His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and h...

The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommo...

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part...

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always...

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for yo...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the trut...

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an ext...

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.