Charlie Munger Quotes

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

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

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

I'm going to be a guy who can defend a bunch of different positions.

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.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

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.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

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

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

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

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

It takes intellectual stamina to stay open, as a leader and a mind, to absorb information and adversity.

A university is supposed to show you ideas that offend you and make you feel uncomfortable,

Well when events change, I change my mind. What do you do?