David Souter Quotes

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion

The people who are right a lot often change their minds.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political leaders.

I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

I'm kind of like, "never say never."

I learn from everybody I work with, and you learn, every single day. I can learn from anyone. Being fortunate enough to perform in front of a changing live audience, every night, you learn from everybody. Everyone has an opinion and they'll let you know.

How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.