We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. — Elbert Hubbard
When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight. — Hildegard of Bingen
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is. — Narendra Modi
It's all about where your mind's at — Kelly Slater
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. — Joshua Waitzkin
Short Mindedness Quotes
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal — Abdul Kalam
An open mind is not an empty one. — William Ury
Listen to that which is well said even if it is from the mouth of an enemy — Greek Proverbs
Judgment hinders imagination. — William Ury
I'm blessed to be curious about things. — Logan Paul
Silencing 'wrong' ideas will eventually destroy our ability to discover the truth. — Lex Fridman
Entertain the idea that what you’ve spent your entire life learning may not be entirely true. — Mo Gawdat
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out. — Groucho Marx
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
Mindedness Image Quotes
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Broad Mindedness Quotes
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. — Mark Twain
The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded. — Sathya Sai Baba
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. — Will Rogers
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. — Salman Rushdie
Close Mindedness Quotes
Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort. — James David Vance
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism, and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated. — Maajid Nawaz
What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance. — Jinkx Monsoon
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
Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief — Napoleon Hill
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
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding. — John Fairclough
To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded. — Marilyn Manson
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions. — George Bernard Shaw
Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause. — Carlton Mellick III
Business Minded Quotes
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay. — Maya Angelou
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. — Saint Francis de Sales
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big. — Andrew Carnegie
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Thomas Paine
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer. — Satoru Iwata
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Leonardo da Vinci
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. — Albert Hofmann
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness. — Frederic Chopin
The Illusion of Knowledge is strongly supported by the Illusion of Self, particularly the ego. We identify ourselves with our knowledge. We defend what we know and get offended when it’s attacked. Since what we think is true is often different for different people, the attacks become frequent. It becomes a constant struggle to try to defend an ego. Undress. Leave your knowledge open to attacks. Be wise. Define yourself by openness to those who contradict what you 'know'. Be an explorer, a seeker of the truth, always ready to admit being wrong in order to continue the quest. — Mo Gawdat
My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new! — D. H. Lawrence
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. — E. B. White
School should teach how to think more than what to think. — Lex Fridman
Humility has a different meaning to different people. It doesn't mean to be a priest, a monk, or a pastor. It simply means you don't know it all. — Patrick Bet-David
Most of the time when we ask for advice, we don’t want the truth. We want the answer we are seeking. Be open to advice that goes against what you want. — Tim Grover
I want to explore for myself and keep an open mind. There is a stigma of being a flat earther and if I'm going to do it I want to know the facts. — Logan Paul
Without the spiritual component, the artist works with a crucial disadvantage. The spiritual world provides a sense of wonder and a degree of open-mindedness not always found within the confines of science. The world of reason can be narrow and filled with dead ends, while a spiritual viewpoint is limitless and invites fantastic possibilities. The unseen world is boundless. — Rick Rubin
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character. — Vance Packard
The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic. — Peter Lynch
In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others. — Vinod Khosla
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage. — Malcolm X
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. — Napoleon Hill
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves. — Joseph Campbell
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 ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be? — Gordon Allport
Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith. — Sam Shoemaker
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz
There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. — Napoleon Hill
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination. — David Salle
The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments. — Samuel Alito
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow
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