Quotes About Open-mindedness

Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.

I had a lot of ideas about conservatives and then I got to Fox and just, I was like, 'Oh, they're not all evil and stupid.'

Frankly, I have a lot of interests, and I am not all that wedded only to banking.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

My mind is always free. My mind is flexible.

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.

If people stay in their own little bubbles, none of us will reach our full potential.

We must first be able to look honestly at fundamentalism in our own backyard, if we are to have any hope of weeding it out.

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans

Reading can show you how capacious and stretchy fiction is, how much it can accommodate, and how far it has expanded beyond the straight and narrow path from point A to point B.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Henry Ford said: "Anyone who stops learning is old—whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Don't be afraid of it. Learn it. Work hard. Do it seriously and try to get what you can out of it. Keep an open mind, and if in the end you decide to throw it away, you'll be doing it from strength.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New