Openness Quotations | Page 2

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

Shift often from openness to closure.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Today is an ominous day for the country, signifying a new low since Watergate in terms of openness and honesty in our government,

I urged the Soviet leader, Mr. Gorbachev, to send a new signal of openness to the world by tearing down that wall.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.