Brigitte Bardot Quotes

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

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

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.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

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

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

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.

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

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

I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.

The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong."

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

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

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

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