Quotes About Open-mindedness

I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

I believe there surely is such a thing as truth, but who among us can claim a monopoly on it? There are those who do, and their own words testify to their intolerance.

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own.

chose young smart people just out of university because they were not set in their ways from previous jobs. Better to teach a young athlete who comes fresh to his sport than to retrain one who has learned bad form.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive of it.

Limited-thinking thinkers think, limited and have no ability, to approach beyond that.

One can neither understand nor accept and respect others' logic, view, and insight before overcoming its ego.

This is what we should do in a disagreement: play half the time for the other side, half the time for our own. It is not a question of sacrificing principles; this is the only way to see the whole.

It was as if [highly sensitive subjects] found it natural to look beyond their cultural expectations to how things "really are.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.