Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Ronald Reagan

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'
Steven Wright

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers