Clarice Lispector Quotes

The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

An open mind but not an empty head.

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.