Quotes & Sayings About Fair Mindedness

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win. — Mark Hodder

It was time to take the best bits from them all and build something delicious: the spirituality of the Hindus, the community spirit and family ties of the Muslims, the ancient wisdom of the Chinese, the love of freedom and equality of the Afro-Caribbeans, the work ethic of the Jews, the bloody-mindedness and wry humour of the Australians, the blarney of the Irish, the passion of the Scots, the unorthodoxy of the Welsh, combined with our own English love of justice, fair play and democracy. Put them all together and you had a vision for the future, a direction, which Bokononism could exploit. — Bernard Hare

Most people have a perception that winners are born great. Winners aren't born great. They have become great by the virtue of doing a little extra to achieve greatness. That little extra effort accumulates to one day giving them the winning results when compared to the ordinary efforts of others. — Kevin Abdulrahman

To know my soul is my greatest knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. — Honore De Balzac

I was half expecting it, but it still came as kind of a shock when the barrier stayed down. It's funny how some things can be so mixed up like that. — Gavin Extence

The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have. That's what's going to define you. — Denzel Washington

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice. — James Gleick

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan. — Herman Melville

Fair mindedness doesn't require a lot of thought, it requires a lot of bravery. — Toni Sorenson

It is only given to women to see without being seen - men must act in the open, or not at all. — G. Willow Wilson

[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included). — Karl Marx

Am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people ... — Virchand Gandhi

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity. — Theodore Dalrymple