Thought for Today

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."

~~~~~ Chauncey Depew

Thought for Today

"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."

~~~~~ Carl Clinton Van Doren

Thought for Today

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."

~~~~~ Chauncey Depew

Thought for Today

"It is always brave to say what everyone thinks."

~~~~~ Georges Duhamel

Thought for Today

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."

~~~~~ Irving Wallace

Thought for Today

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and the one was of the contrary, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

~~~~~ John Stuart Mill

Thought for Today

"And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state."

~~~~~ Galileo Galilei

Thought for Today

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

~~~~~ Michel de Montaigne