Vijay Deverakonda Quotes

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

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

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

[It is] ... a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

We need the self-confidence to admit that at best we possess only a partial understanding of the truth, which can be enlarged by refining our views in light of new arguments, new circumstances and new insights. But this requires us to listen to others, to weigh their arguments with care, and maybe even to learn from them.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.