Quotes About Openness

What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing. A pure soul must expose himself to new things every day.

If you always speak your mind, the evil man will avoid you.

what cannot be shunned must be embraced.

Don't ever ask questions that can only be answered one way, no matter what the truthful answer might be.

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

It aint of a sexual nature is it? No. That's all right. Go ahead and tell it anyways.

If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

nessuna creatura può imparare ciò che il suo cuore non è predisposto ad imparare

Read - and be curious. And if somebody says to you: Things are this way. You can´t change it. - don´t believe a word.

But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.

Maybe my homesickness was a form of prescience because when I look back, it's the circumstances of this very car ride that I recognize as irretrievable: the experience of driving nowhere in particular with my sister, both of us seventeen years old, the open windows causing our hair to blow wildly; that feeling of being unencumbered; that confidence that our futures would inform the way we wanted them to and our real lives were just beginning.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

Ours is the universe of the unfolded rose, The explicit, The candid revelation.

Magnanimous Mind61 is like a mountain, stable and impartial. Exemplifying the ocean, it is tolerant and views everything from the broadest perspective. Having a Magnanimous Mind means being without prejudice and refusing to take sides.

Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary. If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

If a person makes a statement that you think is wrong—yes, even that you know is wrong—isn't it better to begin by saying: "Well, now, look. I thought otherwise, but I may be wrong. I frequently am. And if I am wrong, I want to be put right. Let's examine the facts." There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: "I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: 'I may be wrong. Let's examine the facts.