Quotes About Open-mindedness

People do tend to avoid new realities; they'd rather just add details to the old ones. It's as simple as that.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.

And they do not want anything too critical said about people who really believe in the God of their fathers, because tolerance, perhaps above all else, is sacred.

Merely being offended, or worried, isn't a counter-argument. It isn't a deep reason not to think about something or discover whether or not something is true or useful.

Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

With any teacher or book, take what resonates with you and leave the rest. Your own mind is your greatest teacher. Trust it.

Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction." All

DAVID GLASS: "Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.

Every man adheres as long as he can to his own pre-conceptions.

She hadn't been taught to have prejudices, so she didn't.

Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen.

I was distracted, thinking about what she'd said, until she got to this last part. Sherman? I said. She nodded. That's John and Craig's friend. He's visiting from Shreveport. Sherman from Shreveport? I said. This is the guy you're determined I go out with? You can't judge a book by its cover! she snapped. When I slid my eyes toward Forbidden , she grabbed it up, shoving it back under the bed. You know what I mean. Sherman might be very nice.

I wanted a boyfriend who was a Christian but who wasn't uptight about it, who was good-looking and intelligent and had an interesting job and a sense of humor, who said fuck when the situation warranted it, who had attempted to but been unable to finish St. Augustine's City of God, who could argue politics with my mother and talk business with my father, who liked Indian food and had nice friends and knew how to dress and would like someday to live abroad.

Assumptions are often wrong.

Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don't know as much as you thought you knew.

Stop to consider why your judgement might be wrong.

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

Das Gebildete wird sogleich wieder ungebildet, und wir haben uns, wenn wir einigermaßen zum lebendigen Anschaun der Natur gelangen wollen, selbst so beweglich und bildsam zu erhalten, nach dem Beispiele mit dem sie uns vorgeht.

Upon finishing this parable, Buddha said to the seekers who had been quarreling over the nature of God and the afterlife, "How can you be so sure of what you cannot see? We all are like unsighted people in this world. We cannot see God. Nor can we know what is going to happen after we die. Each one of you may be partly right in your answers. Yet none of you is fully right. Let us not quarrel over what we cannot be sure of.

wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life." Among other things, it reminds us to be humble, especially when we are sure we are right.

Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily "the truth" at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.

to have beliefs different from ours.