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Shunryu Suzuki3 quotes
A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are. — Shunryu Suzuki · 1970The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. — Shunryu Suzuki · 1970In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. — Shunryu Suzuki · 1970G.K. Chesterton1 quote
They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton · 1921Isaiah Berlin1 quote
There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, central vision, one system more or less coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel... And on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes... Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second. — Isaiah Berlin · 1953Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1 quote
There are few things of greater advantage than learning to appreciate the strong points of your opponents. — Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLearned Hand1 quote
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest. — Learned Hand · 1944Sir Thomas Browne1 quote
I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643Thich Nhat Hanh1 quote
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. — Thich Nhat Hanh · 1987