Keep An Open Mind Quotes

• So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Father, Science

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

  Rachael Ray

  Hard Work, Eye, Laughing

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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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  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

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• The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

  Malcolm X

  Wise, Men, Mind

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• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  E. B. White

  People, Childhood, Tolerance

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• Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

  Phil Jackson

  Love, Inspirational, Basketball

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

  Charles Kettering

  New Ventures, Discovery, Mind

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• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Inspiration, Science

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• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Inspirational, Believe, Fall

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1953). “Have We the Courage to be Free?”

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• The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Healing, Mind

  Seven Defenses Ch. 4

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• Keep an open mind---but not so open your brain falls out.

  Robert Low

  Fall, Brain, Mind

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• I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

  Clea DuVall

  Tired, Tolerance, Mind

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• You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

  Brandi Chastain

  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

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• Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

  Michael Jackson

  Mind, Court, Let Me

  "The Abrams Report" with Dan Abrams, www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2005.

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• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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• Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

  Tom Hanks

  Optimistic, Optimism, Tolerance

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• I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving Up, Science, Mind

  "Dow 36,000". Book by James K. Glassman, Kevin A. Hassett, www.cnn.com. September 14, 1999.

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mind, Way, Wells

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• The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Philosophy, Thinking, Medicine

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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Respect, Atheist, Learning

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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