Quotes About Openness

I kinda always felt like I am out, for all intents and purposes. So I always came from the standpoint of, 'Why does writing it in an article or saying it in an article make me gay?' That doesn't make me gay or not. I'm living my life. I'm not lying; I don't hide it.

Nike stands together against bigotry and any form of discrimination... Now, more than ever, let's stand up for our values and remain open and inclusive as a brand and as a company.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

For example, when practitioners transform into Shenlha Ökar (Shen Deity of White Light), they visualize their bodies as being adorned with the thirteen ornaments of peacefulness that in themselves evoke the enlightened quality of peacefulness.2 Shenlha Ökar himself embodies all six of the antidote qualities of love, generosity, wisdom, openness, peacefulness, and compassion; so as soon as you transform into Shenlha Ökar, you instantly embody these same qualities.

I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.

That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

You do not have to be bashful with God as some people are, in the belief that they are being humble. It