Free Thinking Quotes

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Home, Independent, Thinking

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.

  David Karp

  Thinking, Space, Creative

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• I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

  Horace Panter

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Dancing, Narcissism

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• The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law, since it establishes a legal framework to crush free thinking and interrupt individual questioning of the government. It is the beginning of all dictatorship in America.

  Susan Lindauer

  Crush, Thinking, Government

  "Susan Lindauer: Secret Charges and The Patriot Act". Interview with Michael Collins, www.scoop.co.nz. March 10, 2009.

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• My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

  Sara Maitland

  Father, Cocky, Independent

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• We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Thinking, May

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.158

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Thinking, Views

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Perfection, Soul

  George Berkeley (1901). “The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision”

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• I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

  Maurice Cowling

  Book, Thinking, Satanic

  "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 142), 1990.

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Let America Laugh". Interview with Dan Hoyle / WireTap, www.alternet.org. January 1, 2004.

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• If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

  Auguste Comte

  Thinking, Moral, Chemistry

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• She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

  Sara Shepard

  Princess, Thinking, Sea

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• Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Inspirational, Lying, Sleep

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press

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• I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Thinking, Toxic

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• What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Atheist, Thinking

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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• Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Thinking, Roots

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Wise, Independent, Thoughtful

  Quoted by Z. Chafee Jr. in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955.

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• The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The government should do good, where it can, whenever it can. That is President Obama's idea of pragmatism and bipartisanship: He's open to all ideas, from either side of the aisle, about how best to expand government and get the state more involved in our lives.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

  J. G. Farrell

  Thinking, Mind, Disability

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