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Example sentences for "open mind"

  • He could educate himself--for he kept an open mind--and was swift to seize and to interpret great issues in the affairs of the nation; but it was altogether a different matter for him to educate his party.

  • In most directions he kept an open mind, and seems, like Coleridge, to have believed that an error is sometimes the shadow of a great truth yet behind the horizon.

  • Sidenote: PEEL'S OPEN MIND] Lord John Russell never refused to admit the ability of Peel's Administration.

  • We are only beginning to acquire that knowledge, and we need an open mind, free both from the dogmatism of the medical men and the fanaticism of the "faith curists.

  • The reader may say that in this case I am trying to sit on both sides of the fence; but the truth is that I am trying to keep an open mind, and to consider all the facts, and to avoid making rash statements.

  • Try to keep an open mind and an even temper.

  • At the opening of this inquiry I made a strong appeal to you to keep an open mind, and not to be influenced by the rumours and theories which have been freely broached by press and public.

  • I think it is no small advantage to see the natural working of an open mind, not warped by other people's opinions and arguments.

  • Farrar's Eternal Hope--A Lady With an Open Mind--Dr.

  • Farrar's Eternal Hope--A Lady With An Open Mind--Dr.

  • May we be of an open mind, and so in an attitude to receive them!

  • Were it not that through long years I have trained myself to keep an open mind, I could not have believe until such time as that fact thunder on my ear.

  • 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.

  • He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of a big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck.

  • Both have the merit of leaving the inquirer with an open mind.

  • Do you say, 'Let us display an open mind'?

  • But surely, in the matter of interpretation, an open mind is a first essential?

  • I will undertake that if you will satisfy even me, a stranger, without prejudice, and with the habit of keeping an open mind, Dr.

  • 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.

  • Were it not that through long years I have trained myself to keep an open mind, I could not have believed until such time as that fact thunder on my ear.

  • He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck.

  • Has it ever occurred to you that a man with an open mind must be a bit of a scoundrel?

  • Youve got to keep yourself fresh: to look at these things with an open mind.

  • An open mind is all very well in clever talky-talky; but in conduct and in business give me solid ground.

  • If a man put up for the club who had an open mind on the subject of property in umbrellas, I should blackball him.

  • An Open Mind JULY 17 "He often thought that Dr.

  • Not that one should readily change one's opinions, but should always have an open mind, never a closed one, on any question outside exact knowledge.

  • Without prejudice, without bias either of child-like faith or convinced scepticism, and preserving only an open mind, willing to be convinced by reasonable phenomena, there is nothing sublunar or superlunar that so vitally concerns us.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ascetic merit; its work; mince pies; open book; open court; open field; open fields; open fire; open forest; open letter; open order; open rebellion; open sepulchre; open sight; open spaces; open the; open their; open window; open work; opened fire; opened his; opened the; opening speech; person appointed; shall happen; warm climate