People often open their mouths without having first opened their minds. Opening your mind means to be flexible, to take into consideration other possibilities, not to be stubborn and rigid on your positions. In a nutshell, it means not to have a "closed mind". If you reflect, you realize how important it is to be well aware of how things are - from both your point of view and the other's - in order to say something intelligent, logical, meaningful, useful. Unfortunately human beings often tend to blurt out anything that comes to their minds, thus allowing themselves to become prey of sudden emotions, without first thinking of the possible (negative) consequences of their words.
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