Quotes About Openness

Travel opens your mind as few other things do.

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of 'them' & widen the circle of 'us.

That was the trouble with letting people in—once you'd taken off the armor, it was hard to put it back on.

As a scientist, Ling had to keep an open and curious mind, to explore all sorts of permutations. It seemed to her that there were endless variations for love, too, if only people would allow their minds to consider them. Ling opened her eyes again. "Why…?" Ling stopped, afraid to say this aloud. "Why can't we be something new?

When we love, we open ourselves to the possibility of hurt.

software is like sex : it's better when it's free..

I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when it is dangerous to have it open. If, for example, I hear somebody, even an important and easily irascible Somebody, say that Montaigne was born around the year 1600, I simply have to open my mouth and declare: "You are mistaken, sir, Montaigne was born in the year 1533.

We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.