Open Mind Quotes

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

~ Terry Pratchett

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.

~ Criss Jami

Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths – release the need to lie completely! Start NOW.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart.

~ Sheri Fink

Keep your heart and mind open to allow things to come in.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

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

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

~ Cameron Conaway

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

~ Isaac Asimov

It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

~ Criss Jami

Sometimes we need to just brush away our pride, break down the walls around our hearts, and open up to those we truly care for.

~ Imania Margria

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

~ T.e. Lawrence

Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.

~ John Oulton Wisdom

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

~ Deborah Day

Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

When ever you allow your self to be non judgmental mostly to your self, and others, and with an open mind to the things and people who surround you - you have triumphed to a higher self of substance. A substance of your beautiful self. Because when you look back to those moments, you feel a sense of relief, a sense of accomplishment; and deep in your heart, you know you have carried out something that was right. I say : Live up to your morals and values- whilst remaining aware of them, embrace your unique self, your individuality and be happy the way you are. Remembering to shift your focus to the goodness in your life, to let go of things that no longer is useful for the goodness of your being, genuinely and practically, rejoice in the fortune and success of others and most of all, LOVE the BEAUTY you possess within.

~ Angie Karan

Miracles happens everyday. You have to open your heart, mind and soul to see these miraculous encounters.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Pain is inevitable, yet suffering is optional. It is our heart connections that make all the difference. When we experience mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual pain – love is the one medicine that transcends any synthetic or organic drug we use to suppress pain.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

What is your heart worth to you? The answer is ‘everything’. Our hearts are worth the World.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.

~ Krista Tippett

Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty.

~ Debasish Mridha

Keep the window of the mind open to let the fresh thoughts come in like fresh air.

~ Debasish Mridha

Keep your mind open, challenge yourself before you challenge others.

~ Debasish Mridha

With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe.

~ Debasish Mridha

An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

~ William Feather

A president should be approachable; understanding of people's problems and needs; he should be fair and equitable; he should listen with an open mind and a closed mouth; he shouldn't make a decision without all the facts and above all else, he must be honest to the people.Anything else and he shouldn't be president.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

...now open your mind by closing your eyessee the unseen world within you which liesFrom the poem 'The Unseen World

~ Munia Khan

May youalways haveopenbreezy spacesin your mind.

~ Sanober Khan

Positive words come from positive thoughts. It implies, when you open your mouth to talk for people to listen, you have opened your mind for them to read. Think positively; talk positively!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight, wisdom swings it wide open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It has a synergy that allows the best minds to float on top, since there is no entropical hierarchy of mediocrity - once everything stays fluid there is the odd chance for genius elements to actually lead. Such is the case now in Turkey. The protesters are a fluid synergy that have no entropical leadership, and thus the most brilliant PR moves are made by the resistance, who are opposed by the worst sort of mediocrity that is totally at odds with reality. An 'open mind' follows a similar process, but in this case the entropy hides in the hierarchy of ideas that is implanted in the brain: once a person follows mediocre ideas - such as the 'idea' that 'marriage is the meaning of life' or 'having a job is the purpose of existence' etc - then the phenomenon of the 'open mind' becomes already impossible, for there is an internal hierarchy of entropy present that will prevent any sort of original impulse to have the meaning it truly has. Hence, the only way to escape the mediocrity of ones own mind is to allow anything to build and revise it.

~ Martijn Benders

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

~ Aberjhani

Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more.

~ Lorii Myers

All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan