Re-Evaluating Beliefs Quotes

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

I'm totally open to changing my beliefs. I could grow up to be a total communist. I could grow up to be a Neocon. I'm looking to have my views challenged. I'm looking to be corrected.

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

The older I get, the less conservative I become.

People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be a little bit more flexible with them.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.

Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.

Leadership requires that we challenge the conventional wisdom.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.