Best 64 quotes in «open minded quotes» category

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television? By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

I love keeping an open mind. It's liberating to know the universe and our existence are not limited to my understanding.

I'm not sure what is worse, a closed mind or a closed book.

It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it. Here is a quick test: If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant. Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation. It will do both of you good.

my beautiful friend, even on your darkest day i have benefited from the warmth of your light. and i know i’m not the only one. even when you are not consciously giving, you are still giving so much. with your openness, your kindness, your understanding. see yourself through my eyes, for just a moment. feel yourself through my heart.Allow me the honor of reflecting back to you the love you have shown me, time and again, when it was only real love, and real friendship that could have pulled me from the pain. let me take some of your pain now. I am here. I am yours. You are mine, my friend. I am grateful.

I'm too open minded that I don't know what to mind anymore.

Men close their minds when see a naked truth.

Openness is like a sport, we need to practice it every day to get the best ability to be open to others’ ideas after some time.

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

Open minds, open hearts...

One can not prescribe a belief.

Remain open to change and you will succeed.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

Sonya, as a scientist, it's never just about the logistics of life. One must always be optimistic, or else you'll never discover or learn anything new. Though of course, you might also find that such a mentality should never be restricted to such an occupation as mine.

The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.

There are certain moments in life of open-minded people... which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven.

What comes out of a pure-hearted, fluently written by an open-minded.

The men of pure-hearted and open-minded feel no worry about running out of new ideas.

Today is filled with solutions, be positive and enthusiastic at ALL times. Why worry or live in fear, it will probably never happen!

When we come from an authentic, genuine place in ourselves, our efforts to connect with people work to their fullest. Our relationships develop more easily and last longer, and we feel better about the people

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

Words of revelation understood only by those who open-minded and pure-hearted.

When you are open to living and trust the process of life and ready to face all your fears, and not afraid to go astray with life, life definitely comes and talk to you, in its own language.

As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican.

The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

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!

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

An all-powerful ruler of the Universe would not endorse a dormant mind.

A tree that is never shaking by the wind is a dead tree!