Samuel McChord Crothers Quotes

Once in a while, you have to let your mind just go.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

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.

Advocacy and belief go hand in hand. For there can be no true freedom of mind if thoughts are secure only when they are pent up.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

Saroj Kumar is a fictitious character who is free to think anything.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

I always try to have an open mind, but there is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in the head.

It is hazardous to discourage thought, hope or imagination …

I want to listen with an open mind, but I don't want to listen with an empty mind.

It takes intellectual stamina to stay open, as a leader and a mind, to absorb information and adversity.

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

I don't need to move my body. I need to move my ideas.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.