Quotes About Openness

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Human knowledge progresses when people recognize that they may be wrong even on issues that seem certain to them. Wisdom involves openness to those who disagree with us. It is only when our ideas have been subjected to criticism and all objections considered—if necessary seeking these objections out—that we have any right to think of our judgement as better than another's.

Pyrrho "You shouldn't rely on what you believe to be true. You might be mistaken. Everything can be questioned, everything doubted. The best option, then, is to keep an open mind. Don't commit, and you won't be disappointed.

Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Forget your past experiences and achievements and stand naked, exposed to the winds and rains of life, and you will have a chance.

The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.

To preserve openness of heart and calmness of mind, nurture these attitudes: Kindness to those who are happy Compassion for those who are less fortunate Honor for those who embody noble qualities Equanimity to those whose actions oppose your values

The word midrash itself springs from the Hebrew, I'drash , meaning 'to question'. . . . midrash invents alternative aspects of character and event, keeping the possibilities open [ Out of the Garden .

If you are open to your growth potential, you will attract that for which you are willing to be responsible."  Rudi

We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don't open up. We know we have to do it. And as soon as we start to try, we realize immediately that there is no way that we could ever do this alone, because opening up means opening to what's around us, to others, to the world, and to our radical connectedness.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences is the aim.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences if the aim.

El amor no puede ser enjaulado. El amor, para retomar una espléndida imagen que Rainer Maria Rilke utiliza en una de sus cartas, necesita moverse libremente, necesita una mano abierta que le permita, sin obstáculos, detenerse o escapar. Apretar los dedos para inmovilizarlo significa convertir la mano en un ataúd. Porque poseer quiere decir matar.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time

If the answer's not in front of you or behind you, remember there are four other directions to look.

Reject everything, do not look, shut your eyes and change your gaze, awaken another one that almost everyone has, but that few use.

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.