Lee Iacocca Quotes

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

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

There's nothing wrong with changing your position to fit the facts; there's everything wrong with changing the facts to fit your position.

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

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship. The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.

If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.

We never invent new reasons to continue with a position when the original reasons are no longer available.

But even the people who don't like my opinions must admit that I always have a reason behind what I say.

Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.

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

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.

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

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.

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

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

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.

It's really important when we're writing our opinions to be transparent about what our decision method in the case is and how we get from Point A to B to C in the analysis.

I prefer to listen to people who change their mind now and then.

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.