Paulo Coelho Quotes

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

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

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.

If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.

I don't want to tell people what they should think.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

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.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

The essence of an individual’s freedom is the opportunity to deviate from traditional ways of thinking and of doing things.

My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.

It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

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

Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I'm listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart.