Top Openness Quotes

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.

Openness Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being open.

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spear...

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly a...

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

Travel was a species of warfare.

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of...

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and fal...

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation.

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that...