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“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“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

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
― Mark Twain