Quotes About Open-mindedness

Love does not judge.

Sextus [Empericus] identifies three different types of philosophy. There are Dogmatists, who think that they know the truth. There are Academic Sceptics, who think the truth can never be known. Then there are Sceptics, who retain an open mind, not thinking truth is yet discovered, but prepared to accept that it might be.

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that's your responsibility as a person, as a human being – to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often.

Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick a blanket This is an example of what's called a "divergence test

Don't look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger's world.

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We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is.

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance!

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right, ' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

Open your mind to a new pattern of thinking and your life will drastically change for the better.

Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

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

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.