Quotes About Openness

To pierce and penetrate into the estate of every one's understanding that thou hast to do with: as also to make the estate of thine own open, and penetrable to any other.

If any one can prove and bring home to me that a conception or act of mine is wrong, I will amend it, and be thankful. For I seek the truth, whereby no one was ever harmed. But he is harmed who persists in his own self-deception and ignorance.

The religious form of conventional wisdom with its excessive certitude blinds us to the mystery and wonder of life.

The notion that there was one "right" way of seeing things disappeared. This was enormously liberating, even if a bit alarming. But my curiosity was greater than my fear.

It is a life of deep commitment and gentle certitude. Deep commitment, because it involves one's whole being. Gentle certitude, because it is gentle, soft, regarding particular verbal formulations of Christianity, including precise doctrinal statements. These are always human products. They are to be valued as such and to be reformulated when necessary. Depth of commitment and dogmatic certainty about a particular set of beliefs are not the same thing.

A hatred not shown and which remains concealed, is to be feared more than that which is openly voiced.

But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything?

what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

What I have always assumed in him to be bravery may be merely an ignorance of consequences. He thinks he is safe, because he is what he says he is. But he's out in the open, and surrounded by strangers.

Take what the moment offers. Don't close doors. Be thankful.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

I haven't been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a really fun time.

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.