Browsing Topic Best Opening Your Mind Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You will find only what you bring in.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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.

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

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

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

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

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.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

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

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

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

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

The day you open your mind to music, you’re halfway to opening your mind to life.