Browsing Topic Best Mind Opening Quotes

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

You will find only what you bring in.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

I’ve realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels – loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do – but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.