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\nEnjoy this collection of quotes on Open-Mindedness.
\n\u201cWe all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.\u201d \u2014 John Cleese
\n\u201cMinds are like parachutes \u2014 they only function when open.\u201d \u2014 Thomas Dewar
\n\u201cWhere there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.\u201d \u2014 Charles F. Kettering
\n\u201cOne change always leaves the door open for the establishment of others.\u201d \u2014 Niccolo Machiavelli
\n\u201cWhen one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don\u2019t see the one which has opened for us.\u201d \u2014 Alexander Graham Bell
\n\u201cCreative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people\u2019s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.\u201d \u2014 Steven Covey
\n\u201cOne never goes so far as when one doesn\u2019t know where one is going.\u201d \u2014 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
\n\u201cIt\u2019s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.\u201d \u2014 Charles F. Kettering
\n\u201cWithout an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.\u201d – Martha Stewart
\n\u201cI\u2019m looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can\u2019t be done.\u201d \u2014 Henry Ford
\n\u201cI consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analyzed and every responsibility assigned by an organization chart.\u201d \u2014 Akio Morita
\n\u201cIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.\u201d \u2014 Aristotle
\n\u201cI had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.\u201d \u2014 Henry Bessemer
\n\u201cScience at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.\u201d – Rupert Sheldrake
\n“At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes–an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.” – Carl Sagan
\n\u201cAnthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.\u201d \u2014 Margaret Mead
\n\u201cSit down before facts like a child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.\u201d \u2014 Thomas Huxley
\n\u201cI had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.\u201d \u2014 Henry Bessemer
\n\u201cThe best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.\u201d – Niels Bohr
\n\u201cIf your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that – then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you’ll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.\u201d – Pema Chodron
\n\u201cIf we open our hearts, we will also find open hearts – it is always mutual.\u201d – Abbot Leo von Rudloff
\n\u201cLife is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film.\u201d – Ansel Adams
\n\u201cAn artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.\u201d – Nick Cave
\n\u201cThe spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.\u201d – Herbie Hancock
\n\u201cI\u2019m someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.\u201d – Marilyn Manson
\n\u201cThe trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.\u201d \u2014 Terry Pratchett
\n\u201cNow there\u2019s a man with an open mind \u2014 you can feel the breeze from here!\u201d \u2014 Groucho Marx
\n\u201cBy all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.\u201d – Richard Dawkins
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