The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
John DeweyIt science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
John DeweyI should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
John DeweyEverything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.
John Dewey