Gary Johnson Quotes

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.

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

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

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

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.

I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

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

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

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

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

[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.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

I don't have any problem with people correcting me and telling me how I can be better.

I think it's very important to keep in the back of your mind: 'What if I'm wrong?'

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.