Isaac Asimov Quotes

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

Do not allow the Church or the State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment.

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.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

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.

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

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

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

Liberty belongs only to those who have the gift of reason.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz