To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

It is more useful to pay attention to people who disagree with you than to pay attention to those who agree.

Don't believe everything you think.

IT IS BETTER TO LIVE YOUR OWN DESTINY IMPERFECTLY THAN TO IMITATE SOMEBODY ELSE’S PERFECTLY.

Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

I find I am more effective when I can listen acceptantly to myself, and can be myself. I feel that over the years I have learned to become more adequate in listening to myself; so that I know, somewhat more adequately than I used to, what I am feeling at any given moment — to be able to realize I am angry, or that I do feel rejecting toward this person; or that I feel very full of warmth and affection for this individual; or that I am bored and uninterested in what is going on; or that I am eager to understand this individual or that I am anxious and fearful in my relationship to this person. All of these diverse attitudes are feelings which I think I can listen to in myself. One way of putting this is that I feel I have become more adequate in letting myself be what I am. It becomes easier for me to accept myself as a decidedly imperfect person, who by no means functions at all times in the way in which I would like to function.

In these matters, as often in our culture, it is far, far better to be wrong in a respectable way than to be right for the wrong reasons.

Do not conform to the expectations others have of you, but forge your own path.

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that , in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.