Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography...
A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.
1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then...
Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.
When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.
I'm too open minded that I don't know what to mind anymore.
I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness....
Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see
If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurre...
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by scienc...
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of h...
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
It is never too late to give up your prejudices
The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading cler...
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; emb...
What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at...
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
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