Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?

Let nothing prevent you from changing your previous decision if after consideration you feel that the previous decision was incorrect.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

The matter does not appear to me now as it has appears to have appeared to me then.

Perspectives change.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Early convictions must give way to more mature ones.

Redemption should be part of politics, because it’s part of the human pageant.