Mindedness

Examples

• Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude; closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I meant to have told you that we did not wish to purchase any silks to-day, but in my absent-mindedness I forgot it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the phrase is also used to mean ruts, routine ways, with loss of freshness, open-mindedness, and originality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• These things are not the symptoms of great-mindedness, but of a common man's megalomania. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Open-mindedness is not the same as empty-mindedness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was strange that with all her strictness, with all her strong-mindedness, she could gain no command over them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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