Quotes About Open-mindedness

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

We're only afraid of or repulsed by what we don't understand.

Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we're afraid of truth.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

Hello! He said hello and then said, What are you up to now? I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. I don't think I'd like that, he said. You might if you tried. I never have. She licked her lips. Rain even tastes good. What do you do, go around trying everything once? he asked. Sometimes twice.

Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

I never liked lobster in my life, and mainly because I'd never tried it. On my eightieth birthday I tried it. I can't say I'm greatly excited over lobster still, but I have no doubt as to its taste now, and I don't fear it. I dare say death will be a lobster, too, and I can come to terms with it.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

Whoever he was or whatever he was and no matter how different and crazy he seemed, he was not crazy.

The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking, he said. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep moving, learning, growing. And I have never reviled or turned my back on the things I grew out of.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice." She looked at something in her hand.

I'm not surprised at anything any more, said the old man. I'm just looking. I'm just experiencing. If you can't take Mars for what she is, you might as well go back to Earth.

Pois este é um mundo louco e ficará mais louco se permitirmos que as minorias — sejam elas de anões ou gigantes, orangotangos ou golfinhos, adeptos de ogivas nucleares ou de conversações aquáticas, pró-computarologistas ou neo-ludditas, débeis mentais ou sábios — interfiram na estética.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' He asked 'Sometimes twice

But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

There's no suspicion from prejudice.

When people disagreed with him, he urged them to be objective.

Piensa y planea al margen de los métodos tradicionales. Ten en cuenta que siempre hay una respuesta y una solución para cualquier problema.

I learned from this episode that a person can totally disagree with another opinion without feeling that the other opinion has to be silenced. Confidence in your idea means that you don't have to make other people wrong for you to be right. Unfortunately, there are many people, among them many religious people, who don't have this attitude.

We all understand in theory that we should be able to love and respect those with whom we disagree, but few of us can do so. Often, people end up concluding that there is something deficient either in the intelligence or character of those with whom they disagree. Quite characteristically, this is what liberals and conservatives commonly think of each other, that their opponent has something wrong either with his head or his heart.