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Independents Quotes (page 18)

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. Isaac Asimov
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another. Thomas Jefferson
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. Aleister Crowley
Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over. Charles Dickens
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possiblity of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. George Orwell
We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible. James Baldwin
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal processwhich is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake. Lytton Strachey
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident. Joyce Carol Oates
America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products. Thomas Friedman
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time. August Strindberg
Truman Capote quote: "we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I."
we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. Truman Capote
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious."No time. Does it need time to be religious?"Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odon Bar and all that. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for..."
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Herman Hesse
Oscar Wilde quote: "Truth is independent of facts always."
Truth is independent of facts always. Oscar Wilde
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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