James Cash Penney Quotes

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.