mental outlook

She wanted to stir him up to discontent with himself and his surroundings, so that he might be led to enlarge his mental outlook.

He cleared his mental outlook from all preconceptions, and worked down to the bed-rock of objective fact.

Men's own mental outlook was widened by the system of Copernicus and the Reformation freed them from the yoke of the papacy.

She believed in astrology and witchcraft, and had the normal mental outlook of her century.

On the other hand, in accepting the advantages of this large mental outlook, he was forced to abandon those of nationality.