James Allen 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..

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.

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

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

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.

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

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others

The world tells lots of people the light is red. You have to trust yourself and say, 'I think the light is green, and I'm going to keep doing this.'

I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice and my heart - and that's how I make my decisions.

I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

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.

Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image.

Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.