Quotes About Freethinking

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment

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

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

So we did what we always do when there is dissent: nothing. We believe blindly in the virtues of dissent. We don't want a crowd of brainwashed workers. We don't want them to sing company songs, memorize company mission statements, and learn to speak only when spoken to.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The prophylactic for culturally transmitted diseases is free thinking

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we'll call "geeks" for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we're a creative lot who don't like to be told what to do.

My point of view on most issues, my point of view on political issues, doesn't check all the boxes for any movement or any ideology, so I don't feel any burden to give voice to anybody but myself.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

secular education does not mean a negative indoctrination that teaches kids not to believe in God and not to take part in any religious ceremonies. Rather, secular education teaches children to distinguish truth from belief, to develop compassion for all suffering beings, to appreciate the wisdom and experiences of all the earth's denizens, to think freely without fearing the unknown, and to take responsibility for their actions and for the world as a whole.

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —WALTER LIPPMANN I

the ability to reason on your own, your most prized possession as a human.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.