Open Minded Quotes - Page 4

• I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

  Clea DuVall

  Tired, Tolerance, Mind

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• An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mind, Way, Wells

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• The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

  Barbra Streisand

  Country, Media, Ideas

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• Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.

  Robert Fulghum

  Beach, Learning, Thinking

  Robert Fulghum (1997). “Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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• Machines have given us a new ability to count and make our understanding quantitative. The Web connects news gatherers with audiences in ways that were never possible before and can bring a breadth of intelligence, and experiences to understanding the news we never had. And professional reporters and editors still have a unique role to play in triangulating those inputs as well as bringing three other distinct skills - access to interrogate people in power, exceptional storytelling skills, and a discipline of open minded, skeptical inquiry - which are not as likely to be found elsewhere.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Unique, Discipline, People

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• We are so lucky to be surrounded by such open minded, well traveled individuals. Everyone has a different story and journey that we can learn from. We get to express ourselves in art and it can be crazy, but that’s the beauty of it. A mixture of different people and personalities coming together to make one image. Our jobs aren’t easy but there is nothing I’d rather do.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Art, Jobs, Crazy

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• The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Energy, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

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• Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

  Heraclitus

  Fire, Openness, Presumption

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.22, Philaletheians UK

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• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, One Day, Principles

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• We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, States, Openness

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The government should do good, where it can, whenever it can. That is President Obama's idea of pragmatism and bipartisanship: He's open to all ideas, from either side of the aisle, about how best to expand government and get the state more involved in our lives.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Thinking

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• Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

  Henry H. Bauer

  Science, Progress, Different

  Henry H. Bauer (1994). “Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method”, p.76, University of Illinois Press

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• You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Inspiration, Nimble, Dependent

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• The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Tolerance, Action, Broads

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• Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Art, Intelligent, Media

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• America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

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• The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Boys, Yale

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Business, Believe

  "The Real Romance in the Stars". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 1995.

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• Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Kissing, Feminism

  "Emma Watson British GQ Cover Is Actress’ Sexiest Yet" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Humble, Years

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• Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.

  Kelly Perdew

  Winning, Aspect, Response

  Kelly Perdew (2013). “Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and put to Wrok for Donald Trump”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to what there is to know and recognize that they might be wrong. Closed-minded people always tell you what they know, even if they know hardly anything about the subject being discussed. They are typically made uncomfortable by being around those who know a lot more about a subject, unlike open-minded people who are thrilled by such company.

  Ray Dalio

  Asking Questions, People, Littles

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• Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

  Ben Harper

  Writing, Knowing, Discipline

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