Quotes About Openness

I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

Nothing is held back on 'Testimony.'

Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our headphones and hear a different sound track. Everything corresponds. We travel better in the forest of symbols when we are open and available to all the forms of meaning that are watching†and waiting for us.

No matter how tender you care about people, I was discovering, you'll not alter anyone. Best afford them the noblest gift that a man can offer his neighbor. Acceptance.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

The scientist must be free to follow unexpected paths as they appear.

An empty canvas is full.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

I'd rather welcome change than cling to the past.

However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don't.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us." —ADLAI STEVENSON (1952)

The Dalai Lama has said, "Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a better Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a better Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.

Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.

Alles is mogelijk. Dat zou elke dichter moeten weten.

One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.

Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.

It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider

She taught me that being open was simply not being closed. And going into another's mind is mostly done by being willing to go outside of your own.