Richard Dawkins Quotes

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.

I feel like there's a true spirit of individuality in Portland that's inherent to the place.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

I'm very much a person of free thought.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.

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

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

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

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men