Quotes About Openness

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

America is a willingness of the heart.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

I've learned only that you never say never.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

Better be too credulous than too skeptical

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

What should they know of England, who only England know?

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.