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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #independent
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) ↗
#critical-thinking #independent-thought #truth #wisdom #beauty
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. ↗
#dictatorship #fear #freedom #government #independent-thought
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system. ↗
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. ↗
#independent-thought #opinions #skepticism #thinking #independence
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. ↗
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. ↗
