Quotes about Openness

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

But as he'd learned through the years, sometimes the best things were found when you weren't looking for them.

It's not that you don't have the capacity to accept the truth. You don't want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness'' sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!

When your chest is open, and you're breathing deeply, it lifts your spirits.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.

This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.