#open

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#afterwards #before #eyes #half #keep

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#alliance #entered #into #man #marriage

It was Wang Lung's marriage day. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#opening-lines #marriage

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#eye-opening #feminism #gender-inequality #insults #men

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#open-mind #wisdom #men

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature. ↗

— Heraclitus

#open-mindedness #philosophy #wisdom #nature

Nul ne peut voir par-dessus soi, écrit Schopenhauer pour faire comprendre l'impossibilité d'un échange d'idées entre deux individus d'un niveau intellectuel trop différent. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#intelligence #schopenhauer #communication

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

#open-mindedness #nature

A last trick is to become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#art

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. ↗

— Phil Jackson

#always #compassionate #heart #keep #mind