Quotes About Open-mindedness

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!

Digo que la semilla del fanatismo siempre brota al adoptar una actitud de superioridad moral que impide llegar a un acuerdo.

Contending with fanaticism does not mean destroying all fanatics, but rather cautiously handling the little fanatic who hides, more or less, inside each of our souls. It also means ridiculing, just a little, our own convictions; being curious; and trying to take a peek, from time to time, not only through our neighbor's window but, more important, at the reality viewed from that window, which will necessarily be different from the one seen through our own.

Kad su moji prijatelji otkrili da se družimo, po?eli su me nazivati izdajnikom. Nakon mnogo dana polako sam pronašao utjehu u misli da je izdajnik u o?ima fanatika onaj koji se usu?uje promijeniti. Svaka vrsta fanatizma, u svako vrijeme i na svakome mjestu, izražava gnušanje prema promjeni, strahuje od nje te sumnji?avo vidi promjenu zapravo kao izdaju koja izvire iz mra?nih i podlih pobuda.

turn page upside down =

The next world is 'segregated'? You can go to the World of Yin only if you're Chinese? No-no! Miss Banner, she not Chinese, she go to Yin World. All depend what you love, what you believe. You love Jesus, go Jesus House. You love Allah, go Allah Land. You love sleep, go sleep. What if you don't believe in anything for sure before you die? Then you go big place, like Disneyland, many places can go try--you like, you decide. No charge, of course.

Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. [...] Too much water and you flowed in too many directions.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

Historically, discussions among Hindu sub-traditions were dialogical, and there was a notable absence of systematic efforts to stamp out other alternative ways of religious thinking. The language of engagement was not militaristic, and differences, though important, were not seen as problematic. It would be a tragedy if, like the opponents of Deepa Mehta's Fire, Hindus were to privilege a single interpretation of the tradition and hatefully denounce alternative understandings.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

One must allow other people to be right, he used to say when he was insulted, It consoles them for not being anything else.

Que ta vision soit à chaque instant nouvelle. Le sage est celui qui s'étonne de tout.

One must allow other people to be right,' he used to say when he was insulted, 'it consoles them for not being anything else.' (The Immoralist - pp 91)

He that cannot reason is a fool, He that will not a bigot, He that dare not a slave.

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938 Engineers

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938

You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.