Open Mindedness Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Differences, Wish, Think And Grow Rich

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

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• You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fall, Brain, Want

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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, Open Minded

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• 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 ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

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• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Inspiration, Science

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• Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspire, Mind, Belief

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

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Mind

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• Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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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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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Reality, Men

  Letter written following his Hajj, 1964.

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• Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

  Martha Stewart

  Success, Double Minded, Open Minded

  "Martha Stewart: I Asked Her Nothing; She Tells Me Everything". Interview with Lauren Cahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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  The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Mean, Science

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

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• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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• 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 false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, People, Giving

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.34, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

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• 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 or a truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Maturity, Mind, Favors

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  Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

  Groucho Marx

  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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• If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Respect, Order, Tolerance

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• If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Law, Ideas

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.42, Multnomah

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• I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Inspirational, Believe, Fall

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1953). “Have We the Courage to be Free?”

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