Quotes About Openness

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

I want people to know they don't have to live their lives in a permanent 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' existence. Truth is a powerful tool.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Secrets were pernicious and I wanted nothing to do with them.

When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling-like having your heart carved out.

Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets. And in doing so, they had preserved themselves from the Bane.

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.

empathy requires vulnerability.

There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.

Being honest about your feelings always works.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Life could be more meaningful if we find the compassion to open our minds and our eyes to other people's issues and see if we can expand our love and care for people beyond our immediate family.

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.

Be humble: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are. When our thinking is soft, it is called imperturbable thinking. This kind of thinking is always stable. It is called mindfulness.