It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
Carl Sagan
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I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.
HAROLD T. STONE I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER Keeping an open mind is a virtue—but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open tha...
CARL SAGAN Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G.K. CHESTERTON If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Always keep an open mind,for only an open mind can direct you to your success destination.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
VIRGINIA HUTCHINSON By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
CLEA DUVALL Keep your heart open for love; and your mind open for innovative ideas.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
RACHAEL RAY To dream, close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.
SIMEON Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open
KATHERINE PATERSON Keep and open mind & an open heart, and stay positive no matter what happens.
UNKNOWN Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.
ROBERTO CAVALLI An open mind does not always require an open mouth.
UNKNOWN But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing...
KAREN TAYLEUR Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
PHIL JACKSON Keep your heart and mind open to allow things to come in.
DEBASISH MRIDHA In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to ...
CARL SAGAN Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sa...
CARL SAGAN I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.
LYNN GOOD The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.
CARL SAGAN May the source be with you.
OPEN SOURCE the chairman told us he would keep an open mind.
BERNARD EBBERS You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your porta...
LISA CYPERS KAMEN Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak...
EMMETT F. FIELDS Being open means keeping an open mind and an open heart.
JIM GENOVESE If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
WILLIAM A. ORTON Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.
SIMON R. GREEN Intelligent people keep an open mind. Ken's certainly an intelligent guy so I'm sure we're willing t...
ERIC METZ To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art
CHINESE PROVERBS Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your h...
IMANIA MARGRIA An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Your eyes are open but your mind is blind.
SEAN CROSBY Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court
MICHAEL JACKSON As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological ...
ZAHI HAWASS Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be r...
MARNIE GRUNDMAN An open book is an open mind" -Charles Chiltington
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of s...
RICHARD DAWKINS There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate ...
CARL SAGAN The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Je...
CARL SAGAN One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.
DEB CALETTI Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.
JOHN OULTON WISDOM May I have an open mind and an open heart.
JIM GENOVESE Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Listening to your heart is encouraged, but not if it feels like squeezing lemons in an open wound, c...
MEG NEZAJ It's nice to begin each day with an open mind but a wonderful fulfillment will come with an open hea...
RON BARATONO An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...
C.S. LEWIS Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don’t be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism a...
CARLOS WALLACE Open your mind to God's wisdom, open your soul to God's peace, open your heart to God's love and all...
MARY STAVROS In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And h...
GREG GRAFFIN Open your mind before your mouth
ARISTOPHANES The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually ...
STEVE ALLEN Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
PETER DIAMANDIS If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haun...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
VICTORIA ABRIL with an open mind.
CHARLES DUELFER By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called "Carl Sagan Memor...
ANDY WEIR Approach people with an open mind so you can learn from them
SOTONYE ANGA It's all happened so fast but I will take it in my stride and not get carried away and will face the...
BRADLEY SMITH The hardest thing in the world to open is the mind - and it is most easily opened when you're not tr...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and ...
LEARNED HAND You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and ...
JUDGE LEARNED HAND To live a vibrant & purposeful life keep your mind on high alert, eye open & make sure of your targe...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They wi...
CARL SAGAN I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem ye...
CARL SAGAN I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promi...
CARL SAGAN Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that...
CARL SAGAN Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end w...
SHERI FINK An open mind and an open heart will allow the dream inside of
you to become a reality.
JOHN DI LEMME An open mind still has an exit.
QUINN STILLETTO Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary ...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
ENGLISH PROVERB But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Desire is the wind in your sails more than it is your destination, so keep your sails wide open, and...
ZENSHINE We'll start with an open mind.
MARTIN COHEN Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E.B. WHITE I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and ju...
BETHANY MOTA The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
TAIYE SELASI Sometimes life may take you down an unexpected path, but keep an open mind, for that may be the exac...
ALICIA EMAMDEE "Einstein need not wait for an apple to fall"...That is the essence of Open Source Software..
PAVAN YADIKI You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your...
QUENTIN CRISP Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the wo...
EDWIN H. STUART Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!
TAE YUN KIM Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
ELMER G. LETTERMAN Mind what you mind. Do not just open the door of your mind to anything at all you don’t want to mi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The answer we can't find lies beyond what we know, but not beyond an open mind and heart.
JIM GENOVESE I just kept an open mind. I love to hit, so whatever kept me in the lineup. I just like playing base...
JASON JACOBS To free your mind from lies and deceit you have to open your mind to the possibilities of everything...
GARY F EVANS... Have an open mind and heart. Learn to journey in understanding and forgiveness. It's not always goin...
ALEXANDRA ELLE An educated mind is an open mind that can absorb diverse possibilities.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you can't open it, it's not your door. So, don't force it.
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CARL SAGAN One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...
CARL SAGAN Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGAN The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...
CARL SAGAN If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ...
CARL SAGAN Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
CARL SAGAN The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
CARL SAGAN We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGAN