Clarence Darrow Quotes

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.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Think your own thoughts.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I want to get people thinking.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

My goal is to invite readers to think along with me and draw their own conclusions.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Think until it hurts.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Never prevent men from forming judgments according to their intellect

To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come to our own conclusions, and sometimes depart from the pack, sometimes move away from the tribe.