Open To Discussion Quotes

#1. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.

Thomas Paine

#2. New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Colin Farrell

#4. I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Aretha Franklin

#5. There are questions on which a definite opinion has been established, and they are no longer open to discussion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#6. All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.

Bryant McGill

#7. Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.

Hannah Arendt

#8. Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

Aamir Khan

#9. Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion.

Janet Evanovich

#10. When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.

Robert Dallek

#11. He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Richard Whately

#12. If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Dick Spring

#13. We can have open and good discussion with our Republican brothers and sisters. But when we walk into the chapel we should leave our political differences out in the parking lot.

Scott Howell

#14. I think it's going to open up a wider place for a discussion about we ought to come together in our churches, in our neighborhoods, in our work places, in our clubs and our networks. I think it'll be more acceptable to talk about it. We'll see what happens. It'll take some time. But I think it will.

Michael Emerson

#15. Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There's a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh at, we can create a common ground for open discussion.

Sufe Bradshaw

#16. I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.

Kathryn Minshew

#17. Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Saul Bellow

#18. I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.

Robert Casey

#19. the proper way to elicit information from a group is not by starting with a public discussion but by confidentially collecting each person's judgment. This procedure makes better use of the knowledge available to members of the group than the common practice of open discussion.

Daniel Kahneman

#20. It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

William Sloane Coffin

#21. Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

John Paul Stevens

#22. I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

E.P. Thompson

#23. We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.

Tim McDonald

#24. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Matthew Kelly

#25. Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

Emma Bonino

#26. As long as adults still avoid open discussion on sexuality, teens will inevitably seek information on today's electronic street corner.

Peggy Orenstein

#27. We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

Russ Feingold

#28. What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

Kenneth Chenault

#29. 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

#30. I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

Dennis Ritchie

#31. Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

Gustavo De Greiff

#32. To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

Tony Campolo

#33. These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

George W. Bush

#34. Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#35. They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness.

Kathy Hepinstall

#36. In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

James Reston

#37. The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

George Soros

#38. I guess what I would tell women is to get their education first, before having kids. That way they can keep their options open down the road. I also think that it shouldn't necessarily be an issue just for women, that men should be part of the stay-home discussion too.

Tina Fey

#39. I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

Diane Wakoski

#40. All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

Hugh Nibley