“People are terrified of changing their minds. Changing your mind is a door you don’t want to open because you don’t know what’s behind it. Changing your mind means losing all your friends. Changing your mind means a complete revolution in your life. Changing your mind means publicly admitting you’ve been wrong. […] People don’t want to change their minds.”

— Peter Hitchens, book The Rage Against God

2016
Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEJ_dtN0QO8
On Changing One's Mind

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "People are terrified of changing their minds. Changing your mind is a door you don’t want to open because you don’t kno…" by Peter Hitchens?

Peter Hitchens22

author, journalist 1951

Related quotes

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

““Don’t tell me. It changed your life.” I was smiling.
She smiled back. “It didn’t even change my mind.””

Robert Charles Wilson (1953) author

Divided by Infinity (p. 180)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

“(…) The problem is not yours – it is your mind’s only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours. (…) Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don’t look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change, there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these –you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

Mind
Source: I am That, P.125.

“The mind map will change your life.”

Tony Buzan (1942–2019) British psychologist

The Mind Map Book, Buzan and Buzan (1991)

“(…) if you can change yourself you will find that no other change is needed. To change the picture you merely change the film, you do not attack the cinema screen! (…) Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life – this is the quickest way to a change of your world.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

Change
Source: I am That, P.129.

“It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Lini
(15 October 1993)

“If you never change your mind, why have one?”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

“I would love to change your mind”

Pete Yorn (1974) American musician

Song lyrics

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Peter Hitchens22

Related quotes

Related topics