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Those who will not apply new
remedies
must expect
new evils.
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Never
stop learning and adapting. The world will
always be changing. If you limit yourself to what
you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier
in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated
with your surroundings as you age.
David Niven
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Minds
are like parachutes. They only function when they are
open.
James Dewar
You can have such an open mind that
it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George W. Crane
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Keep
your hands open, and all the sands of the desert
can pass through them. Close them,
and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
Taisen
Deshimaru
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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.
It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes,
or it may be found a little draughty.
Samuel Butler
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If
people could regard the events of their own lives with more
open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not
really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre
Maurois
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Merely
having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the
mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on
something solid.
Gilbert
K. Chesterton
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Life
has no other discipline to impose,
if we
would but realize
it, than
to accept
life unquestioningly. Everything we shut
our
eyes
to,
everything we run away
from, everything we deny, denigrate,
or despise, serves to defeat us
in the
end. What seems
nasty, painful,
evil,
can become a source of beauty, joy,
and
strength, if
faced with
an open
mind.
Every moment is a golden
one for those
who
have the vision
to recognize it as such.
Henry
Miller
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Dogmatism
breeds intolerance. Like ideology, dogmatism puts
blinders on what its adherents can see, disables
their questioning faculties, and breeds fervor and
fanaticism. . . . Having an open mind does not mean
that one never comes to any convictions in life. It
is perfectly possible to have an open mind and live
a very principled life, without holding one's
beliefs dogmatically. Having an open mind means
being prepared to question even your most central
beliefs if there is occasion to do so. It means
being open, when the time comes, to having your mind
changed by an argument better than one's own. It
means being able to think both sides of an issue,
both the side you think is true and the side you
think is false. It also means being able to suspend
your beliefs, to play devil's advocate, and to
detach yourself somewhat from your own beliefs,
actions and feelings. Only living with an open mind
gives us a chance to grow and change, for change is
inevitable, while growth, unfortunately, is not.
Jeff
Mason
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Many
a person thinks he or she has an open mind, when it is
merely vacant.
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Tolerance
is understanding. It is open to new light.
Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore
viewpoints other than their own.
Wilferd A. Peterson
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether
at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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The
open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive
at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds
for
the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our
conclusions.
George
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Above
all, remember that the most important thing you can take
anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an
open mind.
Gail Rubin Bereny |
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An open mind, like an
open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
Virginia Hutchison
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It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or
opinions expressed by other
people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense
they might
make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of
poorly
expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what
they are saying.
Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it
means
overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is
comfortable.
Ashly Lorenzana |
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I'd
always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no
patience
with anyone who put down other kids because of their race,
religion, or
sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness.
There's another kind,
too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they
really are and admit
when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need
to work on.
Kelley Armstrong
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Despite
my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries
to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new
experience and
new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind,
which
is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand
with every form of intelligent search for truth.
Malcolm X
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