"One advantage afforded by a long life [is] the opportunity to change one’s mind"

--- Ernst Gombrich, art historian, quoted in an obituary by Elizabeth McGrath, cited by Richard Gombrich in What the Buddha Taught (2009) p. 110

McGrath's obituary in The Burlington Magazine, February 2002, p. 113 is quoted as follows by Gombri

While he habitually expressed his views with great firmness, Gombrich liked to remark that one advantage afforded by a long life was the opportunity to change one’s mind.