Quotes About Openness

Muéstrate abierto a la influencia de los demás, y caerán más fácilmente bajo tu hechizo.

you must begin with the assumption that you are ignorant and that you have natural biases that will make you judge people incorrectly.

The power of demonstrating your idea is that your opponents do not get defensive, and are therefore more open to persuasion.

Ideas as things to play with; if you hold onto them for too long, they become something dead...connecting to the world is more important than holding onto your ego

My policy is to have no policy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1809–1865

To learn requires a sense of humility.

You will need a degree of humility in this process. You can never know exactly what people are thinking and can easily make mistakes, and so you must not rush to judgments but keep yourself open to learning more. People are more complex than you imagine. Your goal is to simply see their point of view better. As you go through this process, it becomes like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it.

Truly creative people in all fields can temporarily suspend their ego and simply experience what they are seeing, without the need to assert a judgment, for as long as possible. They are more than ready to find their most cherished opinions contradicted by reality.

let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end........Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.

Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong.

Cultism—like all totalism and fundamentalism—is a reaction against the potential confusions of protean openness. In that sense cultism is reactionary not only in its constraints on the self but on its efforts to stop the flow of history. Expressions of collective proteanism, one of which Václav Havel called "living in truth," can be viewed as a return to the resilience of the self and its dynamic relationship to the historical process.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them.

a open pot can't hide, a inch-opened door can't hide much, but an open man is hiding the universe. she says something else, but i cannot remember the rest.

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.

Familiarity can blind you

Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.

Purpose to develop an agreeable spirit. I'm not suggesting that you have to agree with everything everyone says. I'm simply saying that you're not obligated to correct them! No one has appointed you Earth's guardian of truth and accuracy. One

Winston Churchill once said: Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas.

If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If

he was asking him to stretch his reality and see another reality.

Their reality blinds them to other realities.