Quotes About Closed Minds

#1. This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p

Mary Roach

#2. Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

Chinua Achebe

#3. is satisfying, not frightening, not empty. It is an illusion of reality created by ignorance that is so unbearable. The illusion of separateness, the illusion of connectedness to disconnected hardened hearts and closed minds is the source of the suffering that we would all wish to be free of.

Mitch Halper

#4. Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

John Shelby Spong

#5. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Napoleon Hill

#6. Do not, for one second, allow people with closed minds and no ambition to make a difference in this life silence you or stop you from going above and beyond.

Tanya Masse

#7. If only closed minds came with closed mouths.

Anonymous

#8. A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Percy Ross

#9. I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

Rex Stout

#10. Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

Maximillian Degenerez

#11. Closed minds close doors.

Tonya Sheridan

#12. By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Alvin Toffler

#13. Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

Peter J. Carroll

#14. Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

Stephen Covey

#15. [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

Gloria Estefan

#16. Don't worry Corelli, girls love a guy who can cry.

Cath Crowley

#17. I want to be the girl of my own dreams.

Unknown

#18. Necessity does everything well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Dean Koontz

#20. It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

Criss Jami

#21. When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

Judith Martin

#22. There's warm skin. A strong body that embraces you. Breaths that escape his gasping mouth. But... we're calling out another's name in our hearts. With our eyes closed, that person's image surfaces in our minds. It was a sweet, gentle, yet cruel night.

Yuuri Eda

#23. I turned on my heel and left her, exasperated that even as I worked my fingers to the bone to liberate women from our cloth chains, our minds remained as closed as ever to the possibility that we might deserve more than a husband, children, and growing old cooking sausage.

C.W. Gortner

#24. I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion
against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

Johnny Cash

#25. people are standing in silent lines with their eyes half-open and their minds half-closed,

Fredrik Backman

#26. Having no destination,
I am never lost.

Ikkyu

#27. the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.

Philip Pullman

#28. As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.

Sara Sheridan

#29. Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed - if it remains open there is nothing to break.

Jewel

#30. She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

Susan Cooper

#31. When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus

#32. Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Ronald Reagan

#33. When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

Ben Affleck

#34. Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.

Andrea Camilleri

#35. 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

#36. We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Phil Crosby

#37. Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe.

Marc Koska

#38. The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.

Bethany Brookbank

#39. The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#40. All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#41. Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#42. The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Seneca The Younger

#43. In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.

John Taylor

#44. Basically, everyone thinks
knows
how sweet I am.
Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.

Anna Banks