Mindedness Quotes

85 quotes by 74 authors

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary… — Lord Acton
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to light, from narrowness… — Clifford Stoll
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the state of no-mindedness. It doesn't… — Rajneesh
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of… — Nelson Mandela
Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in… — Chris Evert
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
To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is… — Scott Watson
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right… — Billy Graham
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster
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… — Albert Hofmann
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… — Malcolm X
Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created… — Guy Kawasaki
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month,… — Chip Heath
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity… — Derek Bok
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,… — Frederic Chopin
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in… — Richard Rorty
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,… — D. H. Lawrence
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful. — Aldous Huxley

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