Closed Mind Quotes

• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  Edna Ferber

  Diversity, Mind, Dying

  George Simon Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Jr., Edna Ferber, John P. Marquand (1984). “George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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• Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

  Roy H. Williams

  Mind, Fit, Bigs

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• The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.

  Ahmed Kathrada

  Mind, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Blessing, Mind, Recognizing

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

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• Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

  David Eddings

  Mind, True You, Decided

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1996). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, Del Rey Books

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  It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Luxury, Nurse

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• We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn something new, whether you think you're interested in it or not. That's the opposite of having a closed mind or a closed door.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Doors, Opposites

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• It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Maturity, Mind, Favors

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• The only real stupidity is that of a closed mind.

  Jan Garavaglia

  Real, Athlete, Stupidity

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Idiot, Dilbert, Danger

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.439, Penguin

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• The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

  Lennox Lewis

  Compassion, Like Love, Mind

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• 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

  Inspire, Mind, Wish

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.30, Penguin

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• Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspire, Mind, Belief

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.34, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

  Danny Wallace

  Optimistic, Mind, Needs

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Teaching, Imagination

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

  Ian Gardner

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Doubt

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  Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

  Groucho Marx

  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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• Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

  Anna Quindlen

  Ignorance, Mind

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• In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Japan, Empty Mind

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• Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

  Charlie Brooker

  Believe, Mind, Want

  "When It Comes to Psychics, My Stance Is Hardcore: They Must Die Alone in Windowless Cells". www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2006.

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

  James Zogby

  Politician, Danger, Closed Minded

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• 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

  Believe, Humanity, Mind

  "Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

  Winifred Holtby

  Sleep, Thinking, Imagination

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Peace, Men, Law

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Danger, Closed Minded

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