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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
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 consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.
You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.
When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.
