Debasish Mridha Quote

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual' of c...

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.Oh, they don't miss me, she said. I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what...

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society.