#minded

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. ↗

— Paul Valery

#ideas #never #people #serious #serious-minded

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #crudeness #education #knowledge #like-mindedness

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. ↗

— Thomas Cochrane

#be happy #contemporary #happy #individual #must

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#character #country #defined #discharge #duty

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#america #could #few #forget #fought

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment. ↗

— Tom Ford

#discouraged #environment #had #i #liberal

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#answer #class #cliff #courage #crisis

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery? ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#because #every #holocaust #last #last time

I just think that most of the people are very close minded. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#i #just #minded #most #people

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#almost #armed #armed services #daily #day