Open Mindedness Quotes

• The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspire, Mind, Wish

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.30, Penguin

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• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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• Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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• You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

  George W. Crane

  Mind, Conviction, Open Minded

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• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

  Will Rogers

  Adversity, Men, Open Minded

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• The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

  William Hazlitt

  Prejudice, Narrow-minded

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.118

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

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• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

  Timothy Leary

  Religious, Confused, Educational

  "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  "Moving Forward".

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• It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

  Tucker Carlson

  Tolerance, Important, Open Minded

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• Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

  Gautama Buddha

  Acceptance, Open Minded, Easier

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• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Listening, World

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

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• There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Differences, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.34, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  E. B. White

  People, Childhood, Tolerance

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• I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving Up, Science, Mind

  "Dow 36,000". Book by James K. Glassman, Kevin A. Hassett, www.cnn.com. September 14, 1999.

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• If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

  Vera Nazarian

  Ignorant, Mind, Wish

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• 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 someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Writing, Mean, Pride

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• Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Inspiration, Tolerance

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• Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Motivational, Science, Open Minded

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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