Do Your Own Thinking

Doing your own thinking is the way to learn. If you are wrong, you can retrace your thought process and make adjustments. Following another person's ideas leaves you vulnerable to being wrong and not understanding why you were wrong. You learn nothing.


“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”
– Hermann Hesse


"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."
– Michel de Montaigne

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
– Theodore H. White


Learn the lesson or retake the course, it’s that simple – Nate Elarton


There are 2 freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes & the true where a man is free to do as he ought. – Charles Kingsley


Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. – Holy Bible


The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. They are unique manifestations of the human spirit. – W. Davis


Trust in the Lord God with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. – Holy Bible


You are as close to God as you choose to be. – M. Geiger


“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
- Benjamin Franklin


Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. Hanlon


It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Harry S. Truman


You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar


If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.
Mia Hamm