Only a fool never changes his mind.
Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.
Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.
If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.
The result can be quite new - perhaps a tendency to judge that something we've never conceived of is possible, or to feel sympathy for a trait or a type of person whom we've regarded with indifference or even hostility.
