Quotes About Independence

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude... ~ Einstein

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Bir insan?n marÅŸ eÅŸliÄŸinde uygun ad?m yürümekten keyif alabilmesi, onu küçümsemem için yeterli bir nedendir. O büyük beyni, ona bir yanl??l?k sonucu verilmiÅŸtir.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

Pour être un membre irréprochable parmi une communauté de moutons, Il faut avant toute chose être soi-même un mouton.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Be a voice, not an echo.

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

Colui che segue la folla non andrà mai più lontano della folla. Colui che va da solo sarà più probabile che si troverà in luoghi dove nessuno è mai arrivato...

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

In politics not only are leaders lacking, but the independence of spent and the sense of justice of the citizen have to a great extent declined.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them I did it myself.