Anthony Storr Quotes

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

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

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

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

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

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.

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

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

Think for yourself and question authority.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

The message bombarding young adults from the leftist cultural elite is clear; you should think for yourself... by adopting my beliefs as your own.

I influence myself, because I always try to be different and stay in my own lane.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

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

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.