Quotes About Thought

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Freedom begins between the ears.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.