Jose Rizal Quotes

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

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.

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

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

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

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

Think for yourself and question authority.

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

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

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 one tells me what to think. I think for me.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

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.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

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

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