open-mindedness

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

People who don__ know how to use their minds can__ really know how to use their hearts either.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

To reach the high notes in life, you must open your heart to sing.

Let us not despise the woman who is neither mother nor daughter nor wife. Let us not limit our esteem to family life, narrow our tolerance to simple egotism. Given that heaven rejoices more at the repentance of one sinner than over a hundred good men who have never sinned, let us endeavor to make heaven rejoice. We may be rewarded with interest. Let us leave along the path the alms of our forgiveness for those whose earthly desires have marooned them, so that a divine hope may save them, and, as the wise old women say when they prescribe a remedy of their own invention, if it doesn't help, at least it can't hurt.

All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as part of their education, is to have some idea they hold to be true, and at the very basis of their being, proved to be wrong.Because that opens your mind to the realization that the world is different than you thought it would be, and you have to begin to open your mind to the possibilities of existence.And opening your mind frees you, it doesn't constrain you. It makes the world more wonderful, more exciting, and more worth living in.

Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter.