Openness Quotes

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospect...

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that the...

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

Travel was a species of warfare.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

The universe is full of doors.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was t...

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mi...

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest....

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that ...

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years wo...

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psy...

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ...

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Opennes...

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incompre...

More depended on the student than on the school.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a ...

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought an...

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-...

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to recei...

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the p...