Flexible Thinking Quotes

Most popular flexible thinking quotes

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. - James Russell Lowell quote.
The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

opinions

A man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. - William Blake quote.
A man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

opinions

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann quote.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

disagreement

Life, in part, is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much-loved hand—you must learn to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds. - Charlie Munger quote.
Life, in part, is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much-loved hand—you must learn to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds.

change life

Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. - Charlie Munger quote.
Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind.

beliefs open-mindedness

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

change

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. - William James quote.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

truth

When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do sir? - John Maynard Keynes quote.
When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do sir?

economics

"What I believe" is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. - Emma Goldman quote.
"What I believe" is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

beliefs

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. - Michel de Montaigne quote.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will. - Mark Twain quote.
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.

loyalty

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Søren Kierkegaard quote.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

freedom of speech