Charles Stewart Parnell Quotes

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.