Quotes About Openness

the world becomes a better place – an easier place to navigate if we admit that even though there are opinions, they may be wrong.

Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

The inward gates of a bird are always open.It does not know how to shut them.That is the secret of its song,But whether any man's are ajar is doubtful.

Here's the cardinal rule of the good listener: receive before you respond. [p97]

we might do well to accept that a noble, courageous, well-lived life is one in which we are equipped to experience and negotiate the full range of emotions: neither seduced by the lure of happiness nor obsessed by the grim and gritty aspects of life, but open to whatever comes and ready to learn from it all.

The integrity of any theory, Kuhn argued, lies in its falsifiability - that is, its openness to the possibility of repudiation in the light of more evidence, fresh insights or a more creative interpretation of data whose significance was not previously understood.

Certainty is the enemy of reason and of reasonableness.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

In order to see, I have to be willing to be seen.

Just be true, and there are no barriers.

India and China offer intriguing mirror images. Modern India has long been open politically and, until recently, closed economically. Modern China has opened economically, but remains politically closed. The comparison reveals that, while politics and economics can never fully be separated, political openness is a better guarantor of long-term stability than economic openness.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

When we stop believing in God, we don't suddenly believe in "nothing" … we believe anything.

What made New Jack City work is that I showed up with zero attitude. I was a wide-eyed rookie, a sponge, trying to soak it up and willing to learn from everybody. I didn't know shit about hitting marks or character motivation—all this acting

Abrir palabra por palabra el páramo, Abrirnos y mirar hacia la significante abertura, sufrir para labrar el sitio de la brasa, luego extinguirla y mitigar la queja del quemado.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Humility has to precede instruction.