Independent Thinker Quotes

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I can draw from their archives and catalogs. The wearer of Black Fleece may not be all that different from mine, in that I imagine that it would be someone who is a true individual, and independent thinker. This is for both men and women.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

I've always been driven to buck the system.

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.

Donald Trump doesn't think that he's deficient. Trump doesn't think that he's lacking. Trump doesn't think he needs advisers to tell him what he thinks. Trump is supremely, eminently confident.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

I'm a maverick.

I am not bossy, I am the boss.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.