Terri Irwin Quotes

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

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

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

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.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

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 hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

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

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said.

I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

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

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.