Jeremy Bentham Quotes

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

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

Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.

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.

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

I learned to question everything you read. Don't take anything at face value. Don't care what other people say. I liked that philosophy.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent 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.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

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

Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.

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

Think for yourself and question authority.

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

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

Liberty, as a counterweight to servile docility which receives everything without scrutiny ... will without question be the theme of this university.

A conscious nation is the one that reconsiders itself, from time to time, without waiting for others to dictate for it.

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

Well as I say, don't believe everything that you read and don't be afraid to think and it is alright to understand what has gone before but don't just rely on copying but develop your internal voice and your own internal means of interpreting.