325 Quotes About Openness

To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Culture is nested in context, not genes.