Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you’ll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings… growing wiser, and believing deeper.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

—Elle m’a pas recconue!—C’est parce qu’elle vous a jamais vue.

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

A person’s open mind is distinctly defined by his caring soul that can readily find the real image of the people’s character and its true kind through their words reflecting and echoing the voice of...

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Over 7 million people on this earth and only a single reality? Nothing realistic about that. Open your minds.

One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.

The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as part of their education, is to have some idea they hold to be true, and at...

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...

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a...

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...

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts...

Over 7 billion people in this world and a single reality? Not very realistic. Open your minds.

The strength of one’s opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.

True love doesn’t spoil.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

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

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an...

People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Create inclusion – with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

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.

All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called forth in me the same kind of uneasiness one has when...

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective...

To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.

…sometimes when you are lost for direction, you are open to a new way of seeing.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Be open minded as an open minded person always sees everything possible and the one who sees everything possible is capable of making anything possible. So keep an open mind and MickeyMize your life. Share...

It’s a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones...

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories,...

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren’t.

Only open-minded deserves the truth.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose;Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart;If you want the...

When one opens a book, one should also open one’s mind.

1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then...