Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

—George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

—Vera Nazarian

The person who never alters their opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

—William Blake

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

—Diane Sawyer

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

—W. Somerset Maugham

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books.

—Annie Dillard

The snake that can’t cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

—Beverly Cleary

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

—Enid Blyton

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.

—Walt Whitman

The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

―Stuart Sutherland

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

—Katy Perry

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

—Hannah Arendt

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

—Michel Houellebecq

You have the RIGHT to change your mind

—Oprah Winfrey

A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.

— Carl Rogers

We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are. Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case, but rather the endlessly astonishing synthesis of the contradictions of everyday life.

—Eduardo Galeano




 
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