Quotes About Freethinking

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

I grew up in a very liberal place.

I had a very liberal family.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.

We fought for equality for all, for women too. For freethinking, fighting the lies of church and state, for what Nat called the Republic of Letters. That was what we believed in twenty years ago. But now, seems like all that has gone. It's church and Sunday best, and votes for men." "What

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

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.

... reason accepts no commandments.

Don't follow the crowd, lead it, be your own individual and think for yourself, don't ever let anyone think for you.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Genius is not about conforming to societal norms, but about breaking free from them and forging new paths.

The human spirit inclines readily toward heresy, arguing against imposed doctrine and challenging the institution that prescribes it.

I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.