--- title: "3 Minds Opened Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Minds Opened quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Minds Opened sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/annette-bening-3058_after_if-you-can-open-people-s-hearts-first-th_604730.jpg" --- > [If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annette-bening/if-you-can-open-people-s-hearts-first-then-maybe-people-s-minds-get/) [Annette Bening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annette-bening/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/annette-bening-3058_after_if-you-can-open-people-s-hearts-first-th_604730.jpg) > [“Only when hearts are tempered, minds are opened and wills are softened can man discern the will of God for his life."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pamela-s-thibodeaux/only-when-hearts-are-tempered-minds-are-opened-and-wills-are-softened/) [Pamela S. Thibodeaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pamela-s-thibodeaux/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccb/pamela-s-thibodeaux-92961_life_only-when-hearts-are-tempered-minds-are_934261.jpg) > [“This story is one for which some people will have to suspend their belief. If it wasn't me and this wasn't happening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecelia-ahern/this-story-is-one-for-which-some-people-will-have-to-suspend-their/) [Cecelia Ahern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecelia-ahern/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcc/cecelia-ahern-535_dead-end_this-story-is-one-for-which-some-people_2499440.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/minds-opened/#itemlist", "name": "Minds Opened Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Annette Bening" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annette-bening/if-you-can-open-people-s-hearts-first-then-maybe-people-s-minds-get/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/annette-bening-3058_after_if-you-can-open-people-s-hearts-first-th_604730.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/annette-bening-3058_after_if-you-can-open-people-s-hearts-first-th_604730.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/annette-bening-3058_after_if-you-can-open-people-s-hearts-first-th_604730.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.” — Annette Bening", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Only when hearts are tempered, minds are opened and wills are softened can man discern the will of God for his life.\" ~ Adam Craig Harris Sr. \"Gramps”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pamela S. 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A little less likely to throw in the towel. Some peoples' minds open later in life, through tragedy or triumph. Either thing acting as the key to unlatch and lift the lid on that know-it-all box, to accept the unknown, to say goodbye to pragmatism and straight lines. But then there are those whose minds are merely a bouquet of stalks, which bud as they learn new information - a new bud for a new fact - but yet they never open, never flourish. 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