249 quotes found
“A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.”
“Without imagination nothing is dangerous.”
“Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?”
“When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.”
“A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.”
“Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.”
“The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.”
“Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.”
“To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.”
“To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.”
“Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
“As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.”
“Old habits are strong and jealous.”
“Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.”
“We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.”
“Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.”
“Any truth creates a scandal.”
“Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.”
“One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.”
“When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
