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Quotes About Openness

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
~ George Santayana
The wisest man has something yet to learn.
~ George Santayana
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
~ George Santayana
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
~ George Saunders
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
~ George Saunders
Fuck concepts. Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
~ George Saunders
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.
~ George Saunders
but a wise man never closes all the options.
~ George Shipway
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
~ George Soros
Cuando a los sabios se les agota la sabiduría, conviene escuchar a los niños.
~ Georges Bernanos
Sometimes you have to get out of your routine so God can speak to you in a non-routine way." 9
~ Georgia Shaffer
When my supply of success at this egotistic autonomy ran out, I became depressed. And with the depression, by means of grace, came a chance for spiritual openness. I
~ Gerald G. May
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.
~ Sonia Johnson
We shall keep our horizon perfectly, absolutely, crystallinely open, ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.
~ John Mistletoe
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
~ Learned Hand
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
~ Henry Moore
If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.
~ English proverb
I always keep myself in a position of being a student.
~ Jackie JoynerKersee
People only see what they are prepared to see.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He hears but half who hears one party only.
~ Aeschylus
Important principles may and must be flexible.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
~ Adlai Stevenson