Quotes About Openness

Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter.

Order is not enough. You can't just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.

to seek peace—you have to decide that you want the answer, more than you want to be right. That's the way out of the prison of your stubborn preconceptions. That's the prerequisite for negotiation.

On Facebook and other forms of social media, therefore, you signal your so-called virtue, telling everyone how tolerant, open and compassionate you are, and wait for likes to accumulate. (Leave aside that telling people you're virtuous isn't a virtue, it's self-promotion. Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

A long period of unfreedom—adherence to a singular interpretive structure—is necessary for the development of a free mind.

On Facebook and other forms of social media, therefore, you signal your so-called virtue, telling everyone how tolerant, open and compassionate you are, and wait for likes to accumulate.

Perhaps what you want is blinding you to what else could be. Perhaps you are holding on to your desires, in the present, so tightly that you cannot see anything else—even what you truly need.

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.

The conversation of mutual exploration, by contrast, requires people who have decided that the unknown makes a better friend than the known.

to seek peace—you have to decide that you want the answer, more than you want to be right.

Where might you learn how to play? Everywhere . . . if you are fortunate and awake.

If you hold out your hand than you're inviting the best part of that person to step forward and that won't happen unless you take that initial step and that's courage, not naivety. So to trust someone once your eyes are open that's an act of courage and that opens up the world.

If happiness comes to you, welcome it with gratitude and open arms (but be careful, because it does make you impetuous).

What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know.

It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

No one unwilling to be a foolish beginner can learn.

Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.

It's not always wrong to be wrong.

So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time

A única perspetiva falsa é a que pretende ser única.

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.