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  • In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

    "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.
  • Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

    Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.337, Courier Corporation
  • Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

  • When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

  • Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

    Art   Stars   Independent  
  • Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

    Education   Wise   Clever  
    Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.29, Open Road Media
  • That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.

  • Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

    Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.59, Mango Media Inc.
  • The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.21, Penguin
  • It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

    1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
  • The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

    "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.
  • The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.

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

    Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books
  • I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

  • Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

  • Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

    Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”
  • Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

    War   Independent   Army  
    David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1918”
  • To think is to differ.

  • America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

  • People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

    Emma Goldman (1914). “The Social Significance of the Modern Drama”
  • None but ourselves can free our minds.

    "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)
  • Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

    David F. Swensen (2009). “Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

  • Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

    Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.138, John Wiley & Sons
  • In economics, the majority is always wrong.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”
  • And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

  • If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

    Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

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