Self Thinking Quotes

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

No one thinks in your mind except you.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

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

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.

I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

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.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

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

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

Just because someone signed up for something or takes advice or has managers or works in entertainment or show business with other people doesn't mean they don't have a brain, okay? It doesn't mean that they're not a real person.

I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.