Sergio Leone Quotes

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

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.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

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.