#minded

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us. ↗

— Sonia Braga

#died #family #father #grew #i

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. ↗

— James Irwin

#beautiful #blackness #christmas #christmas tree #diminished

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#simile #stubbornness #scripture

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own. ↗

— Patti Digh

#inclusion #mindfulness #open-mindedness #welcome #life

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#closed-mindedness #discovery #humanity #ignorance #mankind

The only practical thing to do with the absent-minded is to put them in retirement homes when they are born and admire their artwork when they are senile. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #practical #funny

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#prejudice #truth #change

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right ↗

— Atle Selberg

#open-mindedness #science #science

Books and minds only work when they're open. ↗

— James Dewar

#intelligence #left-is-right-and-right-is-wrong #liberalism #open-mindedness #practicality

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. ↗

— Deborah Day

#flexable #open-mind #open-mindedness #positive-thinking #change