Quotes About Open-mindedness

I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

I don't have children. I don't know how I would feel if my child brought home a different race boyfriend or girlfriend. I don't think I would have any issue with it. But I have no litmus test for that.

Curiosity is the main energy...

I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

Dalai Lama has said, "Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a better Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.

Everybody tends to pigeonhole things they don't understand," said San Epifanio.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

Children, I have found, are much more swift to accept the unusual. They admit their curiosity, you see, rather than disdaining the object that arouses it.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Life is like a tasting plate. You have to try everything...at least once.

Ignorance makes it too easy to jump to conclusions.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

My meditation objective is to be calmer and to assist with my practice in aikido and krav maga. I generally sit between 10 and 20 minutes every day in the morning. What I have found is that if a meditation method works for you, then use it. I have seen some other styles of practice that I have initially thought nonsense, such as focusing on dolphin sounds, Indian shaman chanting, and so on. But if at the end of the day it works for you…then it works.

Perhaps eccentricity is an area I haven't explored sufficiently.

After all, it's pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you're a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.

There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man.