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. . . CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) see: "DOUBT" see: "OPINION" see: "STUBBORN" see "THE MIND" for other related links The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. --William Blake (1757—1827) English poet. _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ [c. 1790/93] Nemo doctus umquam...mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse. No thinker has ever...said that a change of mind was inconsistency. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. - My mind is as open as a forty-acre field, but that doesn't mean I'm going to change it. --Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896—1959) American congressman and senator. Quoted in Neil MacNeil, _Dirkson: Portrait of a Public Man_ [1970]. Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemetaries. --Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896—1959) American congressman and senator. Quoted in Neil MacNeil, _Dirkson: Portrait of a Public Man_ [1970]. - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. - 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' - Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays: First Series_ [1841] "Self-Reliance" Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. --W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _Of Human Bondage_, ch. 39 [1915] Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] In Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 42 [1989].  ;void(0)) CHANGING TIMES . . see "LIFE" for related links see also: "GOOD OLD DAYS" In 1940, teachers were asked what they regarded as the three major problems in American schools. They identified the three major problems as: Littering, noise, and chewing gum. Teachers last year [1992] were asked what the three major problems in American schools were, and they defined them as: Rape, assault, and suicide. --William J. Bennett (1943— ) American poiltician and author. The American woman, when she is an unmarried mother, simply disappears for a while from her community and then comes back, childless, her secret hidden for life. --Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973) American author noted for her novels of life in China; winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. _Children For Adoption_ [1964], Chapter 1 end page | CALAMITIES - CALM | CALUMNY - CANADA | CANCER - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT | CAPITALISM | CAREFREE - CARPE DIEM | CARTER (JIMMY) - CATS & DOGS | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - CENSORSHIP | CERTAINTY - CHANGE | CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) & CHANGING TIMES | CHARACTER | CHARACTER ASSASINATION - CHEERFULNESS | CHEER UP! - CHILDHOOD | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RHYME | CHILE & CHINA | CHOCOLATE - CHRISTIANITY | CHRISTMAS | CHURCH - CIGARS | CIRCUMSTANCES & CITIES | CIVILITY - CIVIL RIGHTS | CLARITY - CLEVER | CLOTHES - COFFEE | COLD - COLORS | COMEDY | COMFORT - COMMON SENSE | COMMUNICATION | COMMUNISM | COMPANIONSHIP - COMPASSION | COMPETITION - COMPLIMENTS | COMPOSERS - CONDUCTORS | CONFESSION - CONQUEST | CONSCIENCE - CONTENTED | CONTEXT - CONVERSATION | CONVICTION & COOKING | COOLIDGE - CORPORATIONS | CORRUPTION - COURAGE | COURT - COWS | CREATIVITY - CRIME | CRIME & PUNISHMENT - CROOKS | CRITICISM & CRITICS | CROWD (THE) - CUBA | CULTURE - CYNICS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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