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.

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...

If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt.

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...

Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

Don’t waste today by talking about yesterday until it’s finally tomorrow.

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty...

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy;...

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. – Nakajima (Gin no...

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 was ever truly harmed. It is...

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing “knowledge” over kindness and compassion.

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child’s views “should” be and be open to hear the...

The thing is, it’s very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

Books and minds only work when they’re open.

We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind is open on...

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares of himself...

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit’s constituent rigor and humility and...

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word “opportunity”. It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until...

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

If you really have an open mind, you would surely discover that every race has some good and bad people in it. Therefore, it would be very unwise to condemn an entire race just because...

Past experience doesn’t go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future...

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...