Abhijit Banerjee 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.

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.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

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.

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

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

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.

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

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

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

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

Put your choices in perspective.

I've learned not to say, 'No, I'd never do that.'

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.