Ray Davies Quotes

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

“I would rather err with the majority than in my own way.” So thought Saint Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.

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.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

What is a human-like droid that operates from a place of free will and has been designed to have a soul? That's fascinating stuff that you just can't quite comprehend quickly. It's not like playing a fireman with a wife and kid. You can gauge where that's going to go and what's going to happen, and you can talk to other people who have done it.

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.

Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!

I think people do have their own minds.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.

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

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

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

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Think your own thoughts.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

Nobody told me how to talk or think.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.