Joyce Meyer Quotes

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.

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. 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.

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.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

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.

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

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

All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.

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.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

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

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

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

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

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

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.