Garth Nix Quotes

I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.

I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion. Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible- and perhaps it really is.

I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

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.

I have a pretty open mind about supernatural stuff - I do believe that there's more to this world than what meets the eye.

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to consider the possibility of your wrongness. Even if it takes someone dumber than you to point that out.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

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.

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.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine.

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.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often