Think For Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.

  Geoff Tate

  Wall, Thinking, Feet

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• Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

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• If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Gratitude, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

  Doris Lessing

  Tyrants, Library, World

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  Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Happiness, Being Yourself

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people's and society's beliefs and actions. Don't get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.

  Alan Keightley

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Men, Hands

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• It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Discipline, Examined Life

  Source: genius.com

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• When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself.

  Linus Pauling

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker". Book edited by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager, 2001.

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• Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We are free to develop our own hypotheses, which should be based in available evidence. When it comes to faith, have faith in yourself. And don't forget to love, laugh, be kind to each other. Don't take things so seriously, especially yourself. If the universe is a cosmic joke, remember to giggle. And remember to be astonished.

  Dennis McKenna

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees is crazy). Do your own research, draw your own conclusions, set your own course, and stick to your guns. When you're just starting out, people will tell you you're wrong. After you've blown past them, they'll tell you you're crazy. A few years after that, they'll (privately) ask you to mentor them.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, Crazy, Gun

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• I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

  Renee Olstead

  Teacher, Thinking, Voice

  "The College Professor I’ll Never Forget" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Want, Causes

  "Song:"Think for Yourself"("Rubber Soul")". 1965.

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• I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

  Joe

  Thinking, Self, Bullshit

  "Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate". Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, CRCRadio.net, 2002.

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• 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.

  Timothy Leary

  Religious, Confused, Educational

  "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.

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• Think for yourself and question authority.

  Timothy Leary

  Love, Life, Spiritual

  Timothy Leary's track on Audio album "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture", 1989.

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• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, People, Justice

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• The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

  Timothy Leary

  Sports, Philosophy, Team

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

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Trying, Ifs

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.130, Penguin

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• Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Thinking, Long

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations”, p.11, Zondervan

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Lessons

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

  Coco Chanel

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Thinking

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