249 quotes found
“Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.”
“It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.”
“All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.”
“It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.”
“The death of dogma is the birth of reality.”
“If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.”
“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.”
“It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.”
“I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”
“The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.”
“The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.”
“Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!”
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.”
“The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.”
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.”
“Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.”
“New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
“Change is what people fear most.”
