Quotes on “independent-thought”

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.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.