Quotes:
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
View quotes by Margaret Mead
Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
View quotes by John Dewey
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
View quotes by Terry Pratchett
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
View quotes by Lewis Mumford
A lot of kids buying my albums have them next to CDs by Coldplay or Britney. They have open ears and open minds.
View quotes by Kenny Chesney
Can I win the Open? Sure I can. Do I think I will win the Open? I've no bloody idea [on his chance of winning Royal Troon]
View quotes by Darren Clarke
This is as good as it gets - to win the Open Championship at the Home of Golf is a dream come true. [on winning the Open, 2005]
View quotes by Tiger Woods
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
View quotes by Barbra Streisand
Terrible marking, you don't mark open spaces. Open space has never scored a goal in a football match
View quotes by Steve McMahon
Not a lot of people thought I could win this Open with the draw I had... it's amazing for me
[2007 US Open champ beating both Williams on route]
View quotes by Justine Henin-Hardenne
An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
View quotes by Virginia Hutchison
There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw
View quotes by Andy Roddick
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
View quotes by Georg Lichtenberg
With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.
View quotes by Richard Dawkins
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
View quotes by Dorothy Allison
I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
View quotes by Margaret Atwood
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
View quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney
It's a contradiction in terms, you can be open or you can have government.
View quotes by John Nettleton
What would it mean? It would mean the world. It would mean everything. I'd like to be that guy tomorrow [on winning the US Open]
View quotes by Paul Casey
They're going to be dealing with emotions that they've probably never dealt with before [on the US Open]
View quotes by Tiger Woods
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