Quotes About Open-mindedness

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.

Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.

I go to a small Catholic school where we have mass every week and say a prayer every morning, but we also are in Los Angeles, where people are so progressive and open.

There should be complete freedom of thought for a progressive society.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

CHOR. Who can decide what is right, or understand an argument, till he has clearly heard the statement of both?

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

The prejudice of [research] training is always a certain 'trained incapacity': The more we know about how to do something, the harder it is to learn how to do it differently

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

Ser novo é não ser velho. Ser velho é ter opiniões. Ser novo é não querer saber de opiniões para nada.

Nadie me ofende si me contradice: para una criatura como yo, de opiniones tan poco sólidas, y de sentimientos tan cambiantes, la discrepancia no tiene aquel sentido de agravio que asume para los firmes y para los dogmáticos, porque yo vivo en habitual discordancia conmigo mismo".

You may have come on no bicycle, he said, but that does not say that you know everything.