individual thinking Quotes

No man can use his brain to think for another.

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

A woman seldom runs wild after an abstraction. The habitual direction of her mind [is] to dealing with things as individuals rather than in groups

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

As the life of George F. Kennan shows, individual, original thinking by one lonely person can sometimes illuminate and guide us better than all the high-level panels, commissions, and interagency meetings.