Unconventional Thinking Quotes

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

It is true that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Avoid independent thinking! How is such independent thinking manifest? A common way is by questioning the council that is provided by God’s visible organization

Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.