Creating Quotes

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

~ H. G. Wells

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.

~ Edward Noyes Westcott

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

~ Shirley Maclaine

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

~ James Russell Lowell

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

~ Winston Churchill

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

~ William H. Seward

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

~ Gelett Burgess

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

~ Henry S. Haskins

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

~ Joseph Joubert

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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?

~ Michel De Montaigne

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

~ William Blake

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

~ Fischer's Law

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

~ John H. Patterson

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

~ Aldous Huxley

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.

~ Everett M. Dirksen

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.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

~ Arnold Bennett

Old habits are strong and jealous.

~ Dorothea Brande

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

~ Eric Hoffer

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

~ Margaret Deland

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

~ Marianne Williamson

Any truth creates a scandal.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

~ Eric Hoffer

Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.

~ Richard Hooker

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

~ Anatole France

The key to change ... is to let go of fear.

~ Rosanne Cash

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

~ Julie Burchill

Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in they are to be utilized and directed.

~ John Dewey

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.

~ Anaïs Nin

Today changes must come fast and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

~ Donald M. Nelson

We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

~ Pope Pius Xi

You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.

~ Jackie Greer

When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

~ Christina Baldwin

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.

~ Will Garcia

The more things change the more they remain the same.

~ Alphonse Karr