Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

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

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

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

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

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

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

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

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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.

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

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

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

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.