Scott Westerfeld Quotes

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.

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

Children have their own mind.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

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.

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.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

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.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.