Robert Bilott Quotes

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

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

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Liberty, as a counterweight to servile docility which receives everything without scrutiny ... will without question be the theme of this university.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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

I question everything I do.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

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.

I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.