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Old habits are strong and jealous.
Dorothea Brande
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
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
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 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.
Aldous Huxley
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!
André Gide
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Molière
All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Learned Hand
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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.
Thomas Carlyle
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
William O. Douglas
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.
Henry B. Wilson
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
Mark Twain
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.
José Ortega y Gasset
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
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