To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.

Heraclitus

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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

Alan Alda

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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Jodi Picoult

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It is never too late to give up your prejudices

Henry David Thoreau

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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

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