Willy Brandt Quotes

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.

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

I might not agree with myself in a year.

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

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

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

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

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.

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

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

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

I've learned never to say never.

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

I'll never be too big for anything.