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What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power. — Greg Saunier

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. — Bryant McGill

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms. — Julia Cameron

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence. — David Halberstam

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. — Augustine Of Hippo

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is. — Shane Snow

Never speak ill of an absent friend. — Plautus

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration. — Mahatma Gandhi

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. — Nelson Mandela

I shall not waste any more words on you," she said coldly. "Your mind is too closed to hear them. — Robin Jarvis

Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important. — Eraldo Banovac

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. — Eric Schmidt

No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else. — Frank Sonnenberg

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty. — Laurence Overmire

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness. — Baruch Spinoza

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s. — Peter Hoeg

Except to the insane narrow-mindedness of industrial economics, selfishness does not pay. — Wendell Berry

Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest. — Lauren Lola

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion. — David Halberstam

Achilles absent was Achilles still! — Homer

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly. — Mara Brock Akil

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness. — Mick Jagger

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir? — John Maynard Keynes

We can't expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own. — Frank Sonnenberg

When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma. — John A. Macdougall

One's opinion should only be as strong as one's knowledge on the matter. — Eric Hirzel

Am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people ... — Virchand Gandhi

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Humility and open-mindedness are a shield to keep your foot out of your mouth. — Laura Gilfillan

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning. — Isabel Allende

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow

Even with my freewheeling open-mindedness, I couldn't fancy Dennis - a man whose ears looked like two long pieces of bacon. — Caitlin Moran

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts. — Joseph Smith Jr.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. — Aldous Huxley

But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own. — Patti Digh

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either. — Vironika Tugaleva

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes. — Jeanette Winterson

When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It is never too late to give up your prejudices — Henry David Thoreau

Narrow-mindedness will only get you as far as Nowhere, and once you're there, you're lost forever. — Tahereh Mafi

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. — Brooks Atkinson

The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments. — Samuel Alito

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling — Deborah Day

If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn't infringe on anyone's freedom, it's their choice to make. — Frank Sonnenberg

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit. — Edna Ferber

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

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future - present-mindedness is your only safe haven. — Bryant McGill

To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature. — Heraclitus

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

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side. — Edith Hamilton

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth. — Peter Kreeft

Books and minds only work when they're open. — James Dewar

How terrible it is to recognize that one's brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others. — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creating
new ideas. — Eraldo Banovac

The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter. — Eric Hirzel

In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness. — Wayne W. Dyer

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? — Samuel Johnson

I don't think haters are small-minded; it's more tragic than that. I think they're great minded, but choose to sell themselves short every day. — Steve Maraboli

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion. — Bryant McGill

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult

...sometimes when you are lost for direction, you are open to a new way of seeing. — Lauren Lola

Petty mindedness instructs eyes to see everything from an unappropriate standpoint, beautifulness could be looked otherwise. — Toba Beta

Don't limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise — Sunday Adelaja

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day. — Neil Gaiman

double mindedness; the mid way between dreams and realities — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. — Mark Twain

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause. — Carlton Mellick III

Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. — Chris Crutcher

An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault. — Alison Weir

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God. — Eric Ludy

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded. — Marilyn Manson

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin

An open mind is better than a clenched fist. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fair mindedness doesn't require a lot of thought, it requires a lot of bravery. — Toni Sorenson

There's something to be said about silence; it can be a moment of truth, or a moment of connection to other like minded people. — Martin R. Lemieux

A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison. — Lionel Suggs

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts. — Eric Hirzel

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up. — Patti Digh

Stay diagnostic even as you take action. — Ronald A. Heifetz

She was a source of love and comfort and friendship and companionship and like-mindedness without any of the difficulties of a girlfriend — Anthony Kiedis

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought. — Jawaharlal Nehru

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind. — Adriano Bulla

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz

Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously. — Stephen E. Ambrose

In my opinion, anyone who claims to speak for God is probably talking out of the wrong end, anyway. — Martha Brockenbrough

Be flexible and adapt easily to new things — Sunday Adelaja

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. — George Eliot

Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your portals to joy — Lisa Cypers Kamen