Independent thinking endangers the ideals one clings to

Evidence

The Mahatma appears not to believe in thinking. He prefers to follow the saints. Like a conservative with his reverence for consecrated notions, he is afraid that if he once starts thinking, many ideals and institutions to which he clings will be doomed. One must sympathise with him. For every act of independent thinking puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1270

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘Every act of independent thinking puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril’ reads as a sharp generalizable aphorism about thought and stability.
• XREF: connects to: Deferential invisibility inside power corrupts an idealist’s stated goals — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 620