Quotes About Openness

allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...

open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...

being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

The wise leader pays respectful attention to all behavior. Thus the group becomes open to more and more possibilities of behavior. People learn a great deal when they are open to everything and not just figuring out what pleases the teacher.

Small pitchers have wide ears.

We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as his example: to be aware of and curious about the world around you, to give what you have with neither apology nor self-congratulation. When praise comes to see you, get out on the fire escape. When it's someone else's time to talk, listen. Don't turn your house into a museum. When your work is done, get out of the way.

things to remain flexible, they need to be complicated or vague, and preferably both.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Beliefs are limits to be transcended.

From 1934 to 1948, the motto of the BBC was Quaecunque, Latin for 'Whatever'.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." He also believed that learning had purpose, stating, "The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Science is to be believed because it can be openly criticized. The criteria for belief is not authority nor logical necessity, but nobody has yet found a more convincing pattern of interpretation.

It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

Your intuition needs a clear, open mind. It won't work if it's competing with other distracting thoughts, fears, or prejudices of your own past experiences.

There is no artifice, no manipulation, no games.

No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.

There are moments of the most crazy all-encompassing joy. What a phenonenally beautiful kid. A funny, dear child. Kind and open and loving.