Browsing Topic Best Open Mindedness Quotes

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.

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

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.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don’t find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don’t cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God’s truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we’re all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we’re all different. It’s usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn’t mean it’s right and a benefit to other people.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

You don’t want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

One of the many lessons I hope I’ve learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it’s worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I’ve decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

I’d always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that’s just one kind of open-mindedness. There’s another kind, too, the kind that’s willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That’s the part I still need to work on.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.