It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.
~ Marcel Proust
It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.
~ Latin Proverb
The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
~ Immanuel Kant
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.
~ Vauvenargues
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
~ Anwar Sadat
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
~ Samuel Butler
I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
~ William J. Johnston
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.
~ Henry B. Wilson
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
~ Brooks Atkinson
The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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.
~ Jonathan Swift
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
~ William James
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.
~ Luther Burbank
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
~ John Locke
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).
~ Walt Whitman
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.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
~ Blaise Pascal
My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.
~ Luigi Pirandello
He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
~ Tyron Edwards
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
~ Horatio Smith
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
~ Molière
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
~ Charlotte P. Gilman
The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.
~ Abraham Cowley
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
~ Havelock Ellis
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~ Oscar Wilde
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.
~ John C. Calhoun
Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
~ William Allen White
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
~ Bernard Berenson
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
~ Aldous Huxley
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice.
~ Mark Twain
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
