Quotes About Freethinking

A thinking man never be a party man.

We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race

There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.

Pensa fuori dagli schemi, smonta gli schemi e falli a pezzi

What can be more calamitous than that men should be regarded as enemies and put to death, not for any crime or misdeed, but for being of independent mind?

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

I don't toe the party line all the time.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Was die Herde am meisten hasst, ist derjenige, der anders denkt; es ist nicht so sehr die Meinung selbst, sondern die Kühnheit, selbst denken zu wollen.

You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do? No. But that's...that's monstrous. Is it? Probably. I couldn't say.

The thinking child seeks equals; the conformist seeks protectors.

the nonconformism of complete conformism:

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

If we all think alike, no one is thinking.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.