Open Mindedness Quotes

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.

~ Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

~ Heraclitus

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

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

~ Malcolm X

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

~ C.s. Lewis

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

~ Criss Jami

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

~ Criss Jami

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

~ Albert Einstein

Open your eyesOpen your earsOpen your mindOpen your heartThey are your portals to joy

~ Lisa Cypers Kamen

There’s usually more than one way to complete a task. I will not stay stuck in my ways. I will remain motivated and open-minded.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

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

It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.

~ Scott Stabile

A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.

~ Zack W. Van

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

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

~ Charles Darwin

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

~ A.j. Darkholme

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

~ Criss Jami

Don’t be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don’t be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

~ Sunday Adelaja

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

~ John Maynard Keynes

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

~ Atle Selberg

The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise

~ Sunday Adelaja

If only I could spend all days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.

~ Scott Stabile

A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called forth in me the same kind of uneasiness one has when face to face with the regulations displayed under the glaring lights of a prison cell. Even if one had been born in prison and had never seen the stars or seas or woods, one would instinctively know of timeless freedom in unlimited space.My evil star, however, had fated me to be born in times when only the sharply demarcated and precisely calculable where in fashion.... Of course, I am on the Right, on the Left, in the Centre; I descend from the monkey; I believe only what I see; the universe is going to explode at this or that speed - we hear such remarks after the first words we exchange, from people whom we would not have expected to introduce themselves as idiots. If one is unfortunate enough to meet them again in five years, everything is different except their authoritative and mostly brutal assuredness. Now they wear a different badge in their buttonhole; and the universe now shrinks at such a speed that your hair stands on end.

~ Ernst Jünger

When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

~ Deborah Day

Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins

~ Alice Walker

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

~ Katherine Rundell

Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.

~ Criss Jami

If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

~ Charles Darwin

Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru