Quotes About Freethinking

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

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

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

M]ost people, most of the time, prefer to seek approval or security. [...] Nonetheless, there are in all periods who feel themselves in some fashion to be apart. And it is not too much to say that humanity is very much in debt to such people, whether it chooses to acknowledge the debt or not.

It is very nearly impossible . . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. --"They Can't Turn Back," in Mademoiselle (New York, Aug. 1960; repr. in The Price of the Ticket, 1985)     The

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

I am an out of the box thinker, simply because I am claustrophobic.

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything .

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.