An Open Mind Quotes

#1. I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

Viggo Mortensen

#2. Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#3. Hey, did you
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"Read your mind?" Osiris shrugged. "It's like an open book full of blank pages. Wasn't very hard.

Rachel Firasek

#4. The will to love, the desire to help, and an open mind with gratitude can unlock the door to eternal happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I'm sure the Industry has been bad to you. I'm sure you have every right to hate it. Keep an open mind however. So long as you do, you might find it's not quite as despicable as you imagine.

Rose Foster

#6. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.

J.R. Ortiz

#7. Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

Hemant Mehta

#8. Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#9. With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

Conor Oberst

#10. The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.

Mortimer J. Adler

#11. I make records with an open mind, I always have.

Tony Visconti

#12. Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#13. A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.

John Litwinovich

#15. An open mind is better than a clenched fist.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task ... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.

Sarah Fielding

#17. An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.

Joe Abercrombie

#18. you can only know God through an open mind just as you can only see the sky through a clear window. You will not see the sky if you have covered the glass with blue paint. But

Alan W. Watts

#19. There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

Bill De Blasio

#20. Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

Vera Stanley Alder

#21. I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

Emma Roberts

#22. There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

Steve Allen

#23. What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

Ayn Rand

#24. An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.

Joe Abercrombie

#25. Maybe a life of devotion doesn't need to be robes and chanting; maybe it's just going through life with open eyes and an open mind, looking out for chances to help people and buzz on the altruistic zip it gives, like coins in Mario Land.

Russell Brand

#26. The wisdom of other cultures is one of the greatest gifts that a traveler can bring home. It takes no room in your suitcase - only an open mind and an open heart.

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#27. A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

George Burns

#28. To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing to have an open mind, and willing to take action!

Tae Yun Kim

#29. I get on well with people and I have really good relationships with the other coaches around me. I don't know everything about the games and I'm still learning all the time, so it's important to have an open mind.

Warren Gatland

#30. keep an open mind with Windows 8. Yes, it seems like a big change from Windows 7, Vista, or XP, but you'll find that many of the changes are an improvement. Moreover, you're only a few settings away from a more familiar Windows, if you so choose.

Tim Fisher

#31. The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place.

Sakyong Mipham

#32. There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.

Andrew Revkin

#33. Even though I was fairly certain God wasn't Ted Bundy, I kept an open mind, since this phone call was getting a bit confusing.

Scott Buckel

#34. I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

Jill Hennessy

#35. A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

Henry David Thoreau

#36. The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Learned Hand

#37. Solving mysteries is as much about having an open mind as keeping your eyes open. Isn't it the same in science?

Menna Van Praag

#38. Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Phil Jackson

#39. So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.

Rebecca McNutt

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

C. JoyBell C.

#41. When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

Todd Solondz

#42. But when the teaching of the Bible is plain, then continuing to maintain an open mind is a sign not of maturity, but of immaturity.

John R.W. Stott

#43. Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

Biz Stone

#44. To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.

Blake Bailey

#45. When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

Penelope Cruz

#46. What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Vernon Howard

#47. Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

Condoleezza Rice

#48. Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.

Diane Ladd

#49. Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

Judith Stone

#50. Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#51. The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Malcolm X

#52. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Dorothea Brande

#53. If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#54. The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.

Wilfred Trotter

#55. But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.

Karen Tayleur

#56. So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

Evan Parker

#57. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

F.K. Preston

#58. Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

Rick Steves

#59. Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Bel Kaufman

#60. Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Shiv Khera

#61. An open mind is also a humble mind because it realizes how little it actually knows.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#62. Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.

Colleen Hoover

#63. What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

Clay Walker

#64. Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

Matthew Bonifacio

#65. I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

Yanni

#66. I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

Lisa Scottoline

#67. This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same

Adrian Sandvaer

#68. Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

Groucho Marx

#69. The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

Charles Kettering

#70. Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

Roger McDonald

#71. Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Dave Bautista

#72. If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.

Dale Carnegie

#73. The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#74. An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.

Jeffrey Fry

#75. Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ... try an Indonesian recipe.

Roger Von Oech

#76. By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

Errico Malatesta

#77. If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.

Blair Singer

#78. Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

#79. Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#80. I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the grocery store - and every time I open my mind to that and find titles, I then weave a story around that.

Bonnie McKee

#81. One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame.

Beth Hoffman

#82. It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

Carl Sagan

#83. The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind ...

Katharine Whitehorn

#84. In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#85. America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

David McCullough

#86. Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...

Cecil Beaton

#87. Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#88. The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.

DJ Quik

#89. Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

Nate Mendel

#90. An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Peter Kreeft

#91. When you have an open mind and you're flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly because you're able to feel and remain neutral at the same time.
You're curious.

Dana Gore

#92. I'm pretty set in my ways. I doubt anything short of a miracle would change me. I do have an open mind, and I listen to them.

Richard Ramirez

#93. Simply have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing. Let it all come and go as it will. Enjoy it all, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any thing, any place, and particularly, any person.

Wayne W. Dyer

#94. In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.

Forrest Griffin

#95. 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

#96. Mindful awareness / Mindful (Res):Awareness of present-moment experience, with intention and purpose, without grasping on to judgments. Traits of being mindful are having an open stance toward oneself and others, emotional equanimity, and the ability to describe the inner world of the mind.

Daniel J. Siegel

#97. An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#98. Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

Timothy Ferriss

#99. I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

Steven Wright

#100. Always keep an open mind, because an open mind is an open door, and an open door is the gateway to everything.

Trevor Forest