Marcus Aurelius Quotes

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

The people who are right a lot often change their minds.

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

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.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

My mind's my kingdom.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

Only the educated are free.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.