#open

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

#maya-delaney #open-mindedness #inspirational

...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering... ↗

— John Geddes

#voice-whisper #wisdom-inspirational #write #inspirational

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#deeds #future #guidance #immediately #open

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#close-mindedness #intelligence #isaac-asimov #knowledge #open-mind

One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter. ↗

— Eric Hirzel

#close-mindedness #intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #opinions

The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter. ↗

— Eric Hirzel

#close-mindedness #intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #opinions

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen. ↗

— George Saunders

#life #open #possibilities #life

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. ↗

— Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

#open #open-mindedness #receptiveness #life

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#opening-lines #life