“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement… To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”

Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist

“My attitude was always to keep open, to keep scanning. I think that's how things work in nature. Many people are close-minded, rigid, and that's not my inclination.”

Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

“Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

“To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.”

Joanne Stepaniak (1954) American writer

“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist

“Pray to soften heartened hearts, to open darkened minds.”

Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint

“All God wants of man is a compassionate heart.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian