Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

The hardest thing in the world to open is the mind - and it is most easily opened when you're not trying.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

The challenge to a person having an open mind is that the foolish people see his brain as an open top barrel and so they try to just put their rubbish things or thoughts in it than benefiting from him.