Quotes About Openness

we must be open to the fact that in regard to some ethical judgments, our focus will be more on the wise, judicious course of action than on the absolute right course of action.

Serendipity communicates with prepared minds, in my view, often leading to miraculous creations and inventions. Serendipity will dance with you if you're already on the dance floor. You mustn't expect it to happen if you're among many spectators who are merely watching others dance. So get on the dance floor right away, and have a good dance with Serendipity when your moment arrives.

The issue is not whether one is unbiased, but how aware, honest, and open their White counterparts are to their prejudices and stereotypes, and whether these biases will interfere with the White person's ability to relate to persons of color.

The trick, you see—" "Is to never assume anything," she finished.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

Saying 'I don't know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

You will learn no more once you have decided you know

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.