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...

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...