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Open Mindedness Quotes & Sayings

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

But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right? — Johnny Rich

Say 'Not Yet.' It's best to leave your options open. — Michele Jaffe

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

A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws. — April Mae Monterrosa

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

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

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

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

True love doesn't spoil. — Toba Beta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world. — C. JoyBell C.

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

Don't be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries — Sunday Adelaja

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19). — John Piper

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

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

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren't. — Lauren Lola

Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities — Sunday Adelaja

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness. — Ezra Koenig

To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants. — Criss Jami

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear? — Joyce Rachelle

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. — Salman Rushdie

The greatest potential we have for opening our hearts lies in the opening of our minds. — Vironika Tugaleva

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. — Richard Branson

If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. — Robert J. Braathe

Maintain a spirit of open-mindedness. — Napoleon Hill

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

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. — Ashly Lorenzana

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

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. — John Stuart Mill

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness — Christopher Hitchens

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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