Art Bell Quotes

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I am mentally bifocal.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

My brain is open.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

My mind is always free. My mind is flexible.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.