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Ralph Waldo Emerson3 quotes
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 · 1841Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1849George Orwell2 quotes
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. — George Orwell · 1949Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. — George Orwell · 1949Mark Twain2 quotes
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain · 1894Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. — Mark Twain · 1904A.A. Milne1 quote
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself. — A.A. Milne · 1920Bertrand Russell1 quote
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 · 1930Brian Cohen1 quote
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! — Brian Cohen · 1979Camille Paglia1 quote
We need more dissent and less dogma. — Camille Paglia · 2015Frederick Marryat1 quote
Every man paddle his own canoe. — Frederick Marryat · 1844Gaius Petronius1 quote
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well. — Gaius Petronius · 66Haruki Murakami1 quote
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami · 1987Henri-Frederic Amiel1 quote
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri-Frederic Amiel · 1883Henrik Ibsen1 quote
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. — Henrik Ibsen · 1882Ivan Turgenev1 quote
I agree with no man's opinions... I have some of my own. — Ivan Turgenev · 1862J. Paul Getty1 quote
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty · 1965John Keating1 quote
When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think. — John Keating · 1989Kostoyed1 quote
I am the only free man on this train and the rest of you are cattle. — Kostoyed · 1965Richard Brinsley Sheridan1 quote
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1779Yevgeny Zamyatin1 quote
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1923