Quotes About Openness

You have a good argument, Karen. And, would you be willing to consider this from another point of view?

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is not being willing to learn.

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn

There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.

That's an interesting phrase, isn't it? Open up. Like you rip yourself open and let others see your insides.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

The regime established here [in the U.S.] promised untrammeled freedom to reasonnot to everything indiscriminately, but to reason, the essential freedom that justifies the other freedoms, and on the basis of which, and for the sake of which, much deviance is also tolerated. An openness that denies the special claim of reason bursts the mainspring keeping the mechanism of this regime in motion.

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

Mostly, people are who they are. But if you accept this about them, you can move forward and build from there—then, they can surprise you.

That thing you do where you don't give people a chance before they've had any chances in the first place.

He envied straight couples the easy openness of their relationships. At that moment, he would've given anything to know what it was like to take his lover's hand without a second's consideration for what anyone else might think, or do.

When we attend to someone who greets us, it is not to require confirmation, attestation, certification of our identity. To respond to someone who greets us is to drop our concerns and thoughts, and expose ourselves to her. It is to expose ourselves to questioning and judgment. Simply responding to her greeting is to recognize her rights over us. Each time we enter into conversation we expose ourselves to being altered or emptied out, emptied of our convictions, our expectations, our memories.

Knowing that wishes don't always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there's a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

When the student is ready the teacher appears'?" I

Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.

Me atraía la idea de no saber si iba a ver pintura, escultura o una retrospectiva de cachivaches varios. Uno siempre debería acudir a las exposiciones así, por azar, con absoluta ignorancia. Alguien desea mostrarnos algo: eso es lo único que importa.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.