In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.
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Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
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You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police.. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
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Be tough minded but tenderhearted.
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
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Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
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It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority.
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.(Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010)
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To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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Today Is International Women's Day; why just a day? It is truly unfortunate that we do not celebrate everyday women.. Everyday
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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
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Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabidurÃa aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabidurÃa de los otros por sà mismo, errando entre las asechanzas del mundo.
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All the dreams you show up in are not your own.
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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