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...

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.