“If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.”
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), p. 336
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Gregory Bateson49
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“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
As quoted in Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784–1822 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026646540;view=1up;seq=69 (1927), edited by Worthington C. Ford, Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 57 <br class="br">Attributed
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: Suicides and Compassion 1932, The Theosophist https://www.theosophyforward.com/index.php/theosophy/609-suicides-and-compassion.html (2012)
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Opera and Humour (1991)
Context: The mind of man, though perhaps the most splendid achievement of evolution, is not, surely, that answer to every problem of the universe. Hamlet suffers, but the Gravediggers go right on with their silly quibbles.
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Variant: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Unverified attribution noted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, p. 227
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist