Openness Quotes

A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

~ David Brooks

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

~ Karl Barth

Children live life as a controlled experiment.

~ Jennifer Senior

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

~ Torsten Wiesel

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

~ Philip Zaleski

• Judge less–or at least later.• Give new ideas and images a chance.• Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.• Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.• Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260)

~ Victoria Moran

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

~ Aldous Huxley

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

~ Alexander Shulgin

Travel was a species of warfare.

~ E.m. Forster

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism, he pushed at its borders.

~ Philip Zaleski

In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform.

~ Phil Cooke

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not

~ David Halberstam

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

~ Tommy Smothers

When you open to the world, the world opens to you.

~ Djahariah Mitra

All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.

~ Eve Evangelista

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

~ Robert K. Massie

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

~ David Cameron

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

~ Alan Watts