Quotes About Open-mindedness

My travels in New Jersey having made me proof against surprise

I saw two Northmen. One was reading a book.' 'Really? A book?' Friendly shrugged. 'There are readers everywhere.

Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea, but weak ones never do.

Um homem que não quer opiniões deveria manter a boca fechada.

Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.

It makes you less ignorant to actually know what you're talking about, so listen to me.

It takes something special to realize that the preconceived choices and beliefs that you've always had aren't necessarily the best ones for you. It's not easy.

You should consider traveling, spending some time seeing the world. It's best when you're young.

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

One should never change one's practice based on a single journal article.

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up.

Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

I consider myself a student of life.

To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind... Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.