Top 72 A Closed Mind Quotes
#1. An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
Bob Nelson
#2. There is no greater ignorance than a man with a closed mind
Lou Silluzio
#3. A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947
Edna Ferber
#4. In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.
Ian Gardner
#5. You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#6. We live in bad times. People do harm to those they don't understand. There is nothing worse than a closed mind and the blind trust that you are the only person to be right.
Leora Cika Waldman
#7. Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".
Richard Nance
#8. We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn something new, whether you think you're interested in it or not. That's the opposite of having a closed mind or a closed door.
Donald Trump
#9. Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#10. I'm not sure what is worse, a closed mind or a closed book.
Anthony Liccione
#11. A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.
Napoleon Hill
#12. Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
Anna Quindlen
#14. Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.
Roy H. Williams
#16. I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.
Joseph Roth
#17. No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
Lindsay Duncan
#18. Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.
David Eddings
#19. As people gain more authority, they often develop a lack of patience in listening to those under them. A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.
John C. Maxwell
#20. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
#21. A closed mind is like a parachute malfunction, a mind like a parachute only works if it is fully open.
Brian Michael Good
#22. Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating.
T.F. Hodge
#23. The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
Lennox Lewis
#24. Openness and honesty rather than a closed mind inspire trust in others.
Mohit
#25. I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.
Georges St-Pierre
#26. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.
Clara Barton
#27. Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind ... the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.
Phil Crane
#33. Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.[17
Charlie Brooker
#35. The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251
Celeste Ng
#36. I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
Bernard Beckett
#37. Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
John Marks Templeton
#38. My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.
Simone De Beauvoir
#39. I'm still so incredibly tired. I lie there with my eyes still closed, just relaxing. I love that warm, fuzzy moment when I wake up and thoughts travel through my mind like a slow river. All my fears and worries are distant concerns that don't really bother me.
Gracie Strattyn
#40. Lane closed her eyes and pressed her lips together at the sound of the nickname, a thousand memories whirling through her mind. He hadn't meant it to hurt her, but even the smallest nick could reopen old wounds.
Courtney Walsh
#41. Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery.
Steve Maraboli
#42. It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
Mark Twain
#43. This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
Winifred Holtby
#44. I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
#45. You see a lot of UFOs with closed eyes and opened mind.
Toba Beta
#46. The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.
Danny Wallace
#47. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#48. Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
Mercy Otis Warren
#49. It is the first time I haven't fought the feeling, haven't tried to control it with closed eyes or a redirection of my mind. Instead I embrace it, flexing my hands around the shaking steering wheel, celebrating the release of dark energy as it spreads through my body.
Alessandra Torre
#50. To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.
Storm Jameson
#51. An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is so beautiful! But a mind attached to things cannot see it because eyes are closed with attachment.
Rajneesh
#53. Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.
Charlaine Harris
#54. Lou could imagine Rich hiding within. She closed her eyes, letting her mind wander, search, and finally focus on him. Hurry up, Rich, she thought. Feeling the tug of connection, a thrill of anticipation ran up her spine. Lou didn't let herself nudge events often, but she did it today.
Danika Stone
#55. Battered by the mind noise, huddled in the back with eyes closed and fists clenched, the old Melissa had understood pep rallies about as well as a bird sucked through a jet engine comprehended aircraft design.
Scott Westerfeld
#56. One question remained to me. "If a higher level of bujutsu involves fighting with the mind, what then is the very highest level?" He closed his eyes for a while, seeing things he would never show me. "That," he said, "would be never to fight at all.
Tan Twan Eng
#57. At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.
Thubten Yeshe
#58. Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
Marian Wright Edelman
#59. His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
William Golding
#60. A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.
Lionel Suggs
#61. He closed his eyes, shook his head. If he could get her alone somewhere, somewhere completely private, he'd kill her. He would break a rock over her head and split her skull open so that he could see, just for a second, what the fuck was in her mind.
Adam Ross
#62. His words and ensuing actions - fleeing instead of fighting - had indeed put a bit of doubt in the kindly elf's not-so-closed mind.
R.A. Salvatore
#63. Ignorant mind is a tightly closed door! To open it, you must knock the door repeatedly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.
Paul C. Nagel
#65. But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.
Sigmund Freud
#66. I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.
Wilson Mizner
#67. What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion.
Milan Kundera
#68. We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong.
Jack Kerouac
#69. Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.
Thubten Yeshe
#70. It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
John Stuart Mill
#71. You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
John Lydon
#72. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The
C.S. Lewis
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