Thinking for Yourself Quotes

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Never follow the crowd.

It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

You don't have to go with the crowd.

There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.