Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences