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“The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.”

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Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.”

Source: Healology

“Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology.”

“If you ever don't see irony, it's because you're not seeing everything.”

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Author:Eric Hirzel

“The meaning of life can best be simplified as gratifying a personalized set of instincts.”

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Author:Eric Hirzel

“Old Porteous’s mind, I thought, probably stopped working at about the time of the Russo-Japanese war. And it’s a ghastly thing that nearly all the decent people, the people who don’t want to go round smashing faces in with spanners, are like that. They’re decent, but their minds have stopped. They can’t defend themselves against what’s coming to them, because they can’t see it, even when it’s under their noses.”

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Book:Coming Up for Air

Source: Coming Up for Air

“Those who do not seek Wisdom do not see Wisdom, even when she passes them by; they see only that which appeals to their lusts: and this substitute becomes their variation of Wisdom.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.”

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Author:Greg Saunier

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”

“Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.”

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Author:Carlton Mellick III

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”

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Author:Milan Kundera