Opening Your Mind Quotes

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Keep an open mind---but not so open your brain falls out.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.