"It is not that we cannot think. It is that we are afraid to think. It is so much easier to go with the tide than against it, to shout with the crowd than to stand lonely and suspect in the midst of it. Even some of us who try to escape this hypnotism of the flock do not succeed in thinking independently. We only succeed in getting into other flocks."
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From "Thinking for One's Self", Leaves in the Wind (1920)
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Alfred George Gardiner
Alfred George Gardiner (2 June 1865 – 3 March 1946) was an English journalist and essayist. He wrote his essays under the pseudonym Alpha of the Plough.
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