As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who’s bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.

My parents aren’t crazy conservative. They’re actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I’m from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

I’m very open-minded.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you’re not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn’t be so quick to judge – and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people – and a lot of that is going on.

There comes a point, I think, as you get a little older, you feel that nothing represents you. You can see the value of many positions, even positions that are in savage conflict with one another. You can locate components on both sides that resonate within you.

Be sensitive to each moment, regard it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else.

I’m obsessively opposed to the typical.