“ The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance u… Mark Batterson
“ The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side. Edith Hamilton
“ Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own. Patti Digh
“ The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. John Stuart Mill
“ It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the exist… Frithjof Schuon
“ A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democrat… David Foster Wallace
“ Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experienc… Suzy Kassem
“ I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting… Sherrie Eldridge
“ Whenever I hear people clucking about the decline of civilization, what's wrong with young people, how vulgar popular culture is, how confusing and frightening they find the internet, alarms go off. I… Jon Katz
“ If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. Andre Maurois
“ If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. Bryant McGill
“ Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to t… Joseph Joubert
“ We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion. Bryant McGill
“ People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either. Vironika Tugaleva
“ Let us not despise the woman who is neither mother nor daughter nor wife. Let us not limit our esteem to family life, narrow our tolerance to simple egotism. Given that heaven rejoices more at the rep… Alexandre Dumas-fils
“ I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
“ The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares… Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“ I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has n… Criss Jami
“ Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without s… Criss Jami
