Positive Quotes - Page 15

Any truth creates a scandal.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Luigi Pirandello

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Molière

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

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.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

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.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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