Quotes About Open-mindedness

It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-minded way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts.

Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.

You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.

The doors leading out of the prison of scriptural literalism simply do not open from the inside.

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

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

Or are they saying simply that they can not and will not be bothered to listen to what is said about an accepted tradition of which they are a part, that has gone on, as far as they know, forever?

Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Os analfabetos do futuro não serão os que não sabem ler ou escrever, mas os que não sabem aprender, desaprender e reaprender.

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; … Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; … Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.53