“Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.”
Swift, 30 December 2005,. "McGill University Featuring Pseudoscience" http://web.archive.org/web/20110108172522/http://www.randi.org/jr/200512/123005museum.html#i8
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/17126222.htm April 24, 2007.
“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
The Enemies of Reason, "The Irrational Health Service" [1.02], 20 August 2007, timecode 00:13:05"ff"
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Variant: We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out.
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
“Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.”
Codex Alera, Princeps' Fury (2008)
Copyright is Brain Damage (2015)
“It blew me wide open. It shifted me up into what I call the inter-dimensional mind.”
James describing his near-death experience.
Source: [Bures, Frank, Aliens, Anomalies, and Absurbity at Mt. Adams, The Portland Mercury, September 2001, http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=25334&category=34029, 2007-03-01]
“Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.”
