Openness Quotes - Page 9

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Philosophy, Thinking, Medicine

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• We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Acceptance, Cities, Tolerance

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

  David Cameron

  Independence, Britain

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• I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, People, Ease

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• For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

  Johnny Depp

  Honesty, Long, Normal

  "'I don't want my kids to Google me and read lies and rumours': Johnny Depp frets over the internet and the price of fame". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. May 9, 2012.

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• Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

  Jared Diamond

  Independent, Innovation, Humans

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• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  Naomie Harris

  Home, Offering, People

  "Naomie Harris Interview The First Grader". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  Sam Harris

  World, Way, Facts

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Love Is, Alaska

  "Time" magazine, June 26, 1950.

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• Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Personality, Tolerance, Mark

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• What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.

  Carl Sagan

  Hands, Ideas, Two

  "The Burden of Skepticism". The Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 12, Issue 1, www.csicop.org. Fall 1987.

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• We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

  Henri Matisse

  Views, Sky, Tree

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• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Jewels, Risk, Important

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• The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Integrity, Character

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Self, Suffering

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• Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Goal, Growth

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

  Anais Nin

  Prejudice, Protection, Weak

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• Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.

  Gary Chapman

  Summer, Moving, Fall

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• It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. But I can look back at the way I thought and felt even as a little kid and there was a lot of wonder there, and openness to the many sides of life.

  George Saunders

  Kids, Sides, Looks

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

  Bell Hooks

  Honesty, Heart, Commitment

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• faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

  Margaret Deland

  Faith, Believe, Heart

  Margaret Deland (2015). “John Ward, Preacher”, p.427, The Floating Press

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• The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

  Paul Monette

  Struggle, Gay, Justice

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• if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

  Rumer Godden

  Thinking, Curiosity, Different

  Rumer Godden (1963). “The Battle of the Villa Fiorita. The Greengage Summer. An Episode of Sparrows”

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• As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

  Zahi Hawass

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

  Zahi Hawass (2015). “Magic of the Pyramids: My adventures in Archeology”, p.28, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

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