Quotes About Openness

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.

The fragility of mortals bred kindness and good grace. They knew how to value friendship and an open hand.

Je ne serais plus un oiseau en cage, trop borné pour s'envoler alors même que les portes sont ouvertes.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

When I say "hope," I don't mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean thinking that it's worth it to keep one's eyes open.

When I say "hope", I don't mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean it's worth it to keep one's eyes open.

After he had sailed around the Mediterranean in 1869, Mark Twain said that travel was 'fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness'.

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

You want to come in my life, the door is open. You want to get out of my life, the door is open. Just one request. Don't stand in the door, you're blocking the traffic

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Dejar entrar a alguien en la vida de uno es abatir los muros construidos para protegerse, no esperar a que el otro los derribe.

if you ever find yourself in a place where everyone around you is just like you, get out of there as fast as you can.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Yes, there is discrimination against people with mental illness and, yes, it can be a scary thing to talk about. But the hunger to do so is there, and by being open yourself you can get that conversation out on the dance floor.

So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced.

Take refuge in your senses, open up to all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain when it falls slow and free... Draw alongside the silence of stone until its calmness can claim you.

Against all attempts at programs and methods, the great art of holiness is to let oneself be.

But where this Spirit of liberty and boldness is, the heart is enlarged with a true, genuine openness and readiness to express all its concerns unto God as a child unto its father.

But if men will not forego all pre-imbibed opinions, prejudices, and conceptions of mind, however rivetted into them by traditions, custom, veneration of elders, and secular advantages, to hearken unto and receive whatever he shall speak unto them, and that with a humble, lowly frame of heart, they will never learn the truth, nor attain a "full assurance of understanding" in the mysteries of God.