Quotes About Open-mindedness

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Betti wrote on philosophy, theology, and law, and many regard him as third in importance behind Gadamer and Ricoeur in twentieth-century hermeneutics. He argues that hermeneutics fosters "open-mindedness" and "receptiveness" to such an extent that the subject should be obligatory in all universities. It nurtures tolerance, mutual respect, and reciprocal listening one to another with patience and integrity.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn't tolerance but condescension.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

Tá»™t cùng c?a tri th?c nhân lo?i v? Thiên Chúa: bi?t r?ng mình không bi?t. Bi k?ch Ä'au thÆ°Æ¡ng c?a chúng ta n?m ? chá»— chúng ta bi?t nhi?u quá. Chúng ta nghÄ© r?ng mình bi?t, Ä'ó là bi k?ch; và do Ä'ó ch?ng bao gi? khám phá ra.

en el individuo fanático que tan sólo se fija en aquello que confirma lo que él cree y apenas percibe cuanto pueda ponerlo en entredicho, y comprenderás lo que tus creencias suponen para ti.

Everything depends on the point of view and is rich in varying aspects. A picture is sublime from one corner of the room, a daub from another; a woman's full face may be perfect, her profile a disappointment; above all, what you admire in yourself becomes highly distasteful in your neighbor. The moral is, I suppose, Tolerance; or if not that, something else which has escaped me.

We need to tolerate intolerance

At the same time, he was not afraid of being proved wrong. If, after a lifetime of considered reason, he found himself being called to judgement in some sort of starry chamber, he was sure he would be forgiven. From what he understood, God was the forgiving sort.

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. (MLK, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1964) (Note: 50 years ago)

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing.

Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

I don't believe in proving myself, ever. I'm in the school of thought where if someone is a curious person, they can find whatever they want.

I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.

In public life, differences should not deter us from acknowledging the good work done by others whom we may not agree with.

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music.