Quotes About Openness

An idea handed to me in the earliest years of my life of conversation comes back with new resonance—the idea of a kinship between the spirituality of the scientist and the spirituality of the mystic: a constant endeavor to discern truth while staying open to everything you do not yet, cannot yet, know.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Remember Hattie, tell the good and the bad.

I'm very open to dating and finding a guy.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

What I am is good enough if I could only be it openly.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought.

It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.

When I am thus able to be in process, it is clear that there can be no closed system of beliefs, no unchanging set of principles which I hold. Life is guided by a changing understanding of and interpretation of my experience. It is always in process of becoming.

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

The world is an empty place if we keep our minds shut! But eyes wide open and the world explodes with wonderment completely at our figertips!

È proprio questo il bello di volersi bene: che c'è una persona alla quale si può dire tutto.

What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.

There is a feeling of deep universalism, in the wake of the splendid words of Democritus: "To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present. Science is the most we know so far about the problems confronting us. It is precisely its openness, the fact that it constantly calls current knowledge into question, which guarantees that the answers it offers are the best so far available: if you find better answers, these new answers become science.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

ogni volta che come nazione, come gruppo, come continente, o come religione, ripieghiamo in noi stessi nella celebrazione della nostra specifica identità, non stiamo facendo altro che celebrare i nostri limiti e cantare la nostra stupidità. Ogni volta che si apriamo alla diversità e ascoltiamo ciò che è diverso da noi, stiamo contribuendo all'arricchimento e all'intelligenza della razza umana. ...

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" "Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.