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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season." »Bhartrihari
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"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman." »Johann von Goethe
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"He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes." »Black Elk
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"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS." »Robert Bakker
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"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." »Aristotle
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"People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones." »Charles Franklin Kettering
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental." »Leopold Stein
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"To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*" »Panchatantra
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed." »W. C. Fields
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"A closed mouth gathers no feet." »Anonymous
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"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without." »Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"The worst prison would be a closed heart." »Unknown
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"A closed mouth catches no flies." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." »Gerry Spence
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"A closed mouth gathers no foot." »Unknown
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"A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"A great many open minds should be closed for repairs." »Toledo Blade
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"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot." »Steve Post
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"A closed mind is a good thing to lose." »Anonymous
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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see." »John Lennon, "Strawberry Fields"
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"If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor." »Jeffrey Klein
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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." »Plato, _Phaedrus_
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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly." »Claude M. Bristol
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit." »Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
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