Lynn Davies Quotes

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

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

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

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

My goal is never to push anyone to do anything other than think.

Never take advice, including this.

Nobody is following us around and primping us or telling you what questions to ask. You have to keep your eyes open.

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.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

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.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.