Loretta

“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader

“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 a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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