Avi Quotes

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

Never take advice, including this.

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

Everyone has to be their own critic.

Rebellion is not always the right thing. Following the rules is not always the right thing. You have to think for yourself and identify the things that do not work for you.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.