Top 100 An Open Mind Quotes
#1. When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.
Charlie Crist
#2. An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in.
Mike Hernacki
#3. I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.
Liam Hemsworth
#4. I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.
Richard Branson
#5. There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
James Randi
#7. With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.
Chris Metzler
#8. Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
Michael Jackson
#9. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
Toni Morrison
#10. Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.
Chrissie Wellington
#11. Keep an open mind - but not so open that your brain falls out.
Richard Feynman
#13. Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.
Hyman G. Rickover
#14. Instead of shunning the darkness, we can face straight into it with an open mind. When we do that, the unknown changes. Fearful things become understandable and a truth is suggested: the enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark. WHITLEY STRIEBER, COMMUNION
Whitley Strieber
#15. Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.
Steven Poore
#16. Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.
Binod Chaudhary
#18. Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.
Joel Madden
#19. The Set Aside Prayer is a good place to begin. God; please enable me to set aside everything I think I know about myself, other people, these Steps, and especially You, so that I can have an open mind and a new experience with myself, other people, these Steps, and especially You!
Tom R.
#20. People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
Jasper Fforde
#21. I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.
Peter Jackson
#22. Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems
Michele Woolley
#23. An open mind and helpful hands can do much to change a dog's future.
Mary Debono
#26. You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George W. Crane
#27. I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
Louis Leakey
#28. Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving heart.
Eric Greitens
#29. Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.
Roberto Cavalli
#30. When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.
Tom Araya
#32. Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.
Dean Radin
#33. The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind ... about everything that may seem impossible.
P.C. Cast
#34. The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.
Alfred P. Sloan
#36. It's nice to begin each day with an open mind but a wonderful fulfillment will come with an open heart.
Ron Baratono
#37. It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.
John Mellencamp
#38. When can one's soul acknowledge (accept)? When one has an 'open mind'. This [Akram Vignan] is not something one has to keep faith in. Faith should arise automatically. Regardless of whether I rebuke or scold you, even then faith should come within you.
Dada Bhagwan
#39. That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.
Clint Eastwood
#40. I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
Clea Duvall
#41. I don't want to wake up dead tommorrow and realize I didn't even try.
Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind.
Ryan E. Day
#42. Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.
Carl Sagan
#43. Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
Laurence Overmire
#44. I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
William Bennett
#45. Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.
Phyllis McGinley
#46. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Malcolm X
#47. I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.
Julia Child
#48. Foretold through memories I remember what dangers I was warned of if lived by ways of sinning. That by living a fruitful life with an open mind to love all people would bring me to a place of peaceful tranquility. I wonder if these are all lies. All of them.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#49. She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God. Nevertheless, she kept an open mind. She was not a melancholy agnostic, but the optimistic kind. She liked to give God the benefit of the doubt.
Allegra Goodman
#50. A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power.
Frederick Lenz
#51. The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
Red Auerbach
#52. If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
James D. Watson
#54. One need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.
Nirmala Srivastava
#55. I'm willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.
Brad Schneider
#56. With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.
Zoroaster
#57. There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious.
Chrissie Wellington
#58. When we pass judgment, we hit a dead end. When we analyze something with an open mind, we can explore a concept into infinity.
Romina Russell
#59. One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!
Dada Bhagwan
#60. A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.
Anuj
#61. If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.
Margaret Kilgallen
#62. An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.
Hal Urban
#63. I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.
Bethany Mota
#64. I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.
Dick Van Dyke
#65. With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.
James Van Praagh
#66. While you're here, work hard, work smart, and keep an open mind. That's all I ask.
Carsen Taite
#67. Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might actually learn something that may help you become a better person!
Auliq Ice
#68. Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart.
Sheri Fink
#69. I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.
Amber Heard
#70. I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.
Buzz Aldrin
#71. One can give 'correct' opinion only if one has an open mind.
Dada Bhagwan
#73. The fact of playing an instrument and singing ... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.
Rokia Traore
#74. A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. - Jack Canfield and Peter Chee
Jack Canfield
#76. An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
Mark Twain
#77. Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.
Ed Parker
#78. Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.
Dannye Williamsen
#79. I approach all of my movies with an open mind and a willingness to dive in and do what's asked of me.
Amber Heard
#80. Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes from myself ... keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth. - St. Vincent
Lisa Kleypas
#81. I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.
Garth Nix
#82. As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth with an open mind and a humble heart, you will become more tolerant of others, more open to listen, more prepared to understand, more inclined to build up instead of tearing down and you will be more willing to go where God wants you to go.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#83. Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creating
new ideas.
Eraldo Banovac
#84. Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan
#85. 'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.
Michelle Dockery
#86. While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.
Sigurd F. Olson
#87. Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
Jochen Zeitz
#88. if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.
Charley Boorman
#89. Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things.
Such as this, I suppose
Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love
Winston Graham
#90. There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Charles Kettering
#91. It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
Randy Newman
#92. Keep an open mind
but not so open your brain falls out.
Robert Low
#93. To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.
Ilchi Lee
#94. Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?
Richard Schultz
#95. It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.
Paul Erdos
#96. As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Zahi Hawass
#98. Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
Rachael Ray
#99. The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.
Danny Wallace
#100. Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.
Russell Kyle
