Quotes About Openness

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Open your mind before your mouth

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling