Quotes About Freethinking

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

Students should be told how to think, not what to think!

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

Think for yourself and question authority.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

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

there've always been hippies of one kind or another. They just go under different names with each new generation. Bohemians, beatniks, dropouts, free spirits, freaks, whatever.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat's for Catholics', or 'Dat's for Lutherans, not us,' and said that if he wanted to talk to God he could do it in the fields.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

I'm weird...I don't give a fu.. though...its better than being normal.

Opinions matter little to those who have a mind of their own.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Nothing Emerson wrote was ever truer of America, but

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

What I meant is that he has Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He hesitated, not quite sure how to put it into words. "… a sense of himself that is quite separate from what society demands. He is inclined to make his own rules.

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think.

Personally, many of my views are not in the mainstream as I am a centrist-libertarian.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.