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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle, De Anima (On the Soul)
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #open-mindedness #intellect #discernment #reason
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one simply to save face.

—Socrates, Plato's Crito
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #humility #open-mindedness #growth #truth
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The frog sitting at the bottom of the deep well believes the sky is only as wide as its mouth.

—Chinese Proverbs, Jing di zhi wa (井底之蛙) — Zhuangzi (Autumn Floods)
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #humility #perspective #open-mindedness #zhuangzi #wisdom
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A closed mind is like a closed book: nothing more than a dense block of wood.

—Chinese Proverbs, Classical Scholarly Folk Saying
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #curiosity #learning #open-mindedness #growth #humility
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Ancient Greek Proverbs, Aristotelian Tradition & Classical Intellectual Lore
Category: WisdomMood: PhilosophicalTags: #critical-thinking #open-mindedness #intellect #discernment #wisdom
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

—George Bernard Shaw, George Bernard Shaw's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: LeadershipMood: BoldTags: #change #open-mindedness #progress #leadership
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book XII
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #open-mindedness #truth #humility #growth
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