Closed Mind Quotes

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  • A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

    Clever   Humorous   Doors  
  • Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

    David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1996). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, Del Rey Books
  • Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

    Biblical   Giving   Mind  
  • In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

  • There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

    Boys   Danger   Charm  
    Song: Candyman, Album: Back to Basics, 2006
  • Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

    Inspire   Mind   Belief  
    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.34, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

    Optimistic   Mind   Needs  
    Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
  • There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  • The only real stupidity is that of a closed mind.

  • There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

    Idiot   Dilbert   Danger  
    Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.439, Penguin
  • I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

    Mma   Mind   Trying  
    Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

  • In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

    Mean   Japan   Empty Mind  
  • A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

    Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet
  • The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.

  • I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

    Children   Book   Sleep  
  • A closed mind is a dying mind.

    Diversity   Mind   Dying  
    George Simon Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Jr., Edna Ferber, John P. Marquand (1984). “George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays”, Olympic Marketing Corporation
  • Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

  • There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  • It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

    Maturity   Mind   Favors  
  • This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

    Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”
  • Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

    Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.32, Anchor
  • By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

    Funny   Trust   Laughter  
    "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.
  • If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

    Meditation   Mind   Empty  
    Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

    Peace   Men   Law  
    "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.
  • The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

    Inspire   Mind   Wish  
    Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.30, Penguin
  • I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

    Years   Mind   Trying  
    "Spike Lee Talks ‘Chi-Raq’ Kismet, Amazon Deal, Obama & Why Film Is Like Sports – AwardsLine". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. January 8, 2016.
  • There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

  • The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

  • Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

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