Abraham Lincoln Quotes

[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.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

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

I shall not grow conservative with age.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

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

There's nothing wrong with changing your position to fit the facts; there's everything wrong with changing the facts to fit your position.

When the facts change, one ought to change one’s opinion.

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

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

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

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.

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.

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.