Closing Quote by Irving Babbitt

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for…

— George Bernard Shaw

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— George W. Crane

Closed books don't open the mind.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything…

— Samuel Butler

The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments.

— Samuel Alito

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of…

— Clara Barton

Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but…

— Thurgood Marshall

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.

— Mark Nepo

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

— Ronald Reagan

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

— Carrie Brownstein