Closed minds are also often the smallest
Who said that? Anyone famous?
Quotes
‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’
— Aristotle
‘If a Man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he will end in certainties.’
— Francis Bacon
‘When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one which has opened for us.’
— Alexander Graham Bell
‘The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.’
— Henri Bergson
‘I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.’
— Henry Bessemer
‘A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.’
— G. K. Chesterton
‘We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.’
— John Cleese
‘Creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.’
— Steven C