Virginia Woolf Quotes

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

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

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

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.

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.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

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

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

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.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

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

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

Think for yourself and question authority.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

Never take advice, including this.

I've never been a 'yes person.'

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

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.

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