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.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.
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 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.
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.
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.
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.
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