249 quotes found
“To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.”
“Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.”
“Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.”
“We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.”
“Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!”
“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.”
“New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).”
“I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.”
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
“My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.”
“He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
“The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.”
“True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.”
“Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
