Corsican Proverb Quotes

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

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

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

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

Send a wise man and don't advise him. He should know what to do.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

Never take advice, including this.

Don't take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I don't give advice, because I always made my own mistakes and would only be adding further chaos to the situation.

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

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

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.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.