“Science is born from this act of humility: not trusting blindly in our past knowledge and our intuition. Not believing what everyone says. Not having absolute faith in the accumulated knowledge of our fathers and grandfathers. We learn nothing if we think we already know the essentials, if we assume that they were written in a book or known by the elders of the tribe. The centuries in which people had faith in what they believed were the centuries in which little new was learned. Had they trusted the knowledge of their fathers, Einstein, Newton, and Copernicus would never have called things into question and would never have been able to move our knowledge forward (259, trsl. Carnell & Segre)”
Source: La realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose
“You should not have to feel personally offended in order to know that something is offensive.”
“Be open to the possibility that new people who come into your life now are helping propel you to new heights of learning, growth, and opportunities.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“Novelty of outcome + Social Approval of that outcome = fake creativity”
Source: The Genius Famine: Why we need geniuses, why they’re dying out, and why we must rescue them
“An open mind does not censor truth, it discerns it through recognition, study, doubt, and faith. It recognizes it as complimentary to every truth in existence. When confronted with truth that makes one uncomfortable give yourself time to be open, but also time to acclimatize”
Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“He went back to his solitary wanderings. Believing any set of four walls to be a tomb or a trap, he preferred to float over the most barren of open spaces.”
Source: The Viceroy of Ouidah
“As I thin out my things and discuss what to do with what is left, I release the expectation that they must be passed down within my family. This openness and acceptance may potentially pave the way for less disputes and resentments in the future.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“I like being out here. I like that people are, for the most part, at their best. They are open and alive. Conversation is not small or dull. We seem to be able to skip the pleasantries of how’s your day and get right into the meat of things. Maybe all travel opens us up like this.”
“Openness gives us the necessary humility to accept, or at the least entertain, the concept that our inability to explain certain things does not render them false or unreal.”
Source: Intuition: Discover the Inner Workings of our World - Book 1
“If you are not Open to receive your Greatness, how can you live it? Your resistances and fears keep you trapped behind closed doors.
Release your resistances and doors will open”