Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

You can be dogmatic, like Donald Trump, and say don't tell me any of the facts, I have made up my mind, I don't want to hear anything, or you can say, look, trade can be good or it can be bad, depending on the rules.

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

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.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.