Quotes About Openness

Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe anything and everything that is said of them.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Sometimes it's better to reserve judgment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

Keep an open mind," he told me, "for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.

If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction.

So remember," said Mr. Kidswatter. "And please be careful! Always check to see if a door is open before going through it. And if it's not open, open it.

He felt at home in many places.

a copperhead lay coiled. Part of me not sight knew it was there. The atavistic like flint rock sparked. Amazon tribes see Venus in daylight. My grandfather needed no watch to tell time. What more might we recover if open to it? Perhaps even God.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

I can't deal with hidden undertows or unspoken feelings.

The only basis for real fellowship with God and man is to live out in the open with both. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. To

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

In this Unbound state that night you encountered all that was and ever could be: form and emptiness, and the absence of form and emptiness. You felt what it was to open completely, to merge with matter and let everything in.

Never be afraid of not knowing, young man. Not knowing is ze practice of poets and sages.

Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change." "What are you saying?" "I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities. As Lulu did. It is what one finds so appealing about her." It

if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities.

newer here? There were no dense brambles

Expect Nothing

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

This is known, and what is not known does not undermine it. This is the scientific way. To be open about the limits of one's knowledge increases public confidence in what one says is known.

I disapprove of certainties, said Virgil Jones. They limit one's range of vision. Doubt is one aspect of width.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.