Independent thought Quotes

"I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican." "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself" "I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me." "And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world" "Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" "If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out" "We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion."