Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

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

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

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

Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image.

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.

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 phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

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.

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.