A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)

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A quotation from Chris Boucher

THE DOCTOR: The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable, if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Chris Boucher (1943-2022) British TV screenwriter, script editor, novelist
Doctor Who, 14×04 “The Face of Evil,” Part 4 (1977-01-22)

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A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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Unchanging consistency of standpoint has never been considered a virtue in great statesmen.

[Numquam enim in praestantibus in re publica gubernanda viris laudata est in una sententia perpetua permansio.]
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A quotation from Smith, Sydney:

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I am old, but I certainly have not that sign of old-age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.
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A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

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Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
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A quotation from Maugham, W. Somerset:

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The Vicar of Blackstable would have nothing to do with the scheme which Philip laid before him. He had a great idea that one should stick to whatever one had begun. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
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