Jim Morrison Quotes

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

… the third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

There is but a shallow stream of thought in history.

I think every player thinks in a different way.

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'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

I think people are looking for an alternative because in addition to there being sort of a myopic, lemming - like ants on a sugar cube mentality on this DNS attack story by many in the media, there's just this culture of sameness. Everybody sounds the same.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.

To think is not always to see.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.