Quotes for the Journey: Open-Mindedness Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering

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.  It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little draughty.        -Samuel Butler     Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an open mind.       -Gail Rubin Bereny     Tolerance is understanding.  It is open to new light.  Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.        -Wilferd A. Peterson     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     Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.       -Henry Ford      Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.       -Gilbert K. Chesterton     Those who will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.        -Francis Bacon

Never stop learning and adapting.  The world will always be changing.  If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.        -David Niven

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them.  Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.        -Taisen Deshimaru

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.  Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.  What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.  Every moment is a golden one for those who have the vision to recognize it as such.       -Henry Miller

Minds are like parachutes.  They only function when they are open.        -James Dewar

An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.        - Virginia Hutchison

If people could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.        -Andre Maurois

A closed mind is a dying mind.       -Edna Ferber

Many a person thinks he or she has an open mind, when it is merely vacant.        -unattributed

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.         -George W. Crane

Dogmatism breeds intolerance. Like ideology, dogmatism puts blinkers on what its adherents can see, disables their questioning faculties, and breeds fervor and fanaticism. . . . Having an open mind does not mean that one never comes to any convictions in life. It is perfectly possible to have an open mind and live a very principled life, without holding one's beliefs dogmatically. Having an open mind means being prepared to question even your most central beliefs if there is occasion to do so. It means being open, when the time comes, to having your mind changed by an argument better than one's own. It means being able to think both sides of an issue, both the side you think is true and the side you think is false. It also means being able to suspend your beliefs, to play devil's advocate, and to detach yourself somewhat from your own beliefs, actions and feelings. Only living with an open mind gives us a chance to grow and change, for change is inevitable, while growth, unfortunately, is not. Jeff Mason

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