Quotes · Skopia

22 quotes

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Topic·Thinking for oneself✕clear

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

An Enemy of the People · 1882

★ 4.5

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 3.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 3.8

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.7

Personal journal

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

1904

★ 3.7

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood · 1987

★ 3.7

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 3.7

We need more dissent and less dogma.

2015

★ 3.7

Every man paddle his own canoe.

Frederick Marryat

Settlers in Canada · 1844

★ 3.6

Personal journal

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

1883

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

You don't need to follow me! You don't need to follow anybody! You got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals! You're all different!

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 3.6

Play · Satire (play) · Satire

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Critic · 1779

★ 3.5

Essay · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

1923

★ 3.5

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.

1965

★ 3.5

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.2

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 2.2

Film · Epic (film) · Romantic drama (film) · Epic · Romantic drama

I am the only free man on this train and the rest of you are cattle.

Doctor Zhivago · 1965

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

1930

★ 1.9

Personal journal

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1849

★ 1.3

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

Gaius Petronius

Satyricon · 66

★ 1.2

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