Quotes About Independence

That girl," Skulduggery muttered, "never does what she's bloody well told …

What a burden it must have been. You're very brave for facing it alone." "Thank you," she mumbled. "Amazingly, astonishingly stupid , but brave." She cracked a smile. "Yeah." "Very foolish, is what I'm getting at." "I can see that." "This, basically. Just thick. Dumb as a bag of hammers. Not too bright there, Valkyrie." "You can really stop complimenting me now.

I don't need another guy telling me how great I am. I know how great I am. I'm me.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

He has to come to it on his own.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.