Loretta Lynch Quotes

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

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

I try not to be overly analytical.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

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.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

We can be critical of the things that we love. That is possible.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.