Quotes About Broadening

We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own.

In a time of danger, the person sounding the paranoid continual alarm will eventually be right. A voice arguing for our complete rightness and the complete wrongness of our enemies, a voice constantly broadening the definition of enemy, relieves us of the burden of living with ambiguity.

Life is the pursuit of eternally broadening context.

He doesn't have to actually do anything, but it's about widening his horizons, right? We

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time

Moving from a more focused approach to self-awareness and our own personal karma to a more relational approach to how we interact with others is referred to as the transition from the Hinayana7 (narrow vehicle) to the Mahayana (expansive vehicle) within the historically Tibetan tradition. The journey of relationships is not a better path—it's just a natural broadening of the scope of our practice.

Reading is not a project of moral improvement, but by broadening our perspective, it can make us less susceptible to the immediate seductions offered by our environment; and in the best-case scenarios, it can enlarge the scope of humane understanding, and of empathy.

I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly alarmist approach taken by most reporters, and look forward to contributing heterodoxical pieces on energy and the environment in the future.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Maintaining security in the present undermined her chances of broadening her security-enhancing network of relationships in the long run.

Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

We thought we only wanted X, but having read this application, it seems important to expand our thinking to include Y.

You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist.

Spotify is a platform: it could be expanded to other types of content.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

There is no danger in scientists specializing. The actual danger is that the specialists are generalizing.

If travel expands our experience and broadens our minds, the anticipation of travel helpfully narrows our reading list.

President Reagan proposed further broadening the use of the polygraph test. All executive departments were authorized to "require employees to take a polygraph examination in the course of investigations of unauthorized disclosures of classified information.