“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”

“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?”

“But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.”

“My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.”

“Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men...”