E. O. Wilson Quotes

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.