Quotes About Openness

Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.

The biggest obstacle to learning something new is the belief that you already know it.

Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we're interested in them'.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

If you're constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.