Quotes About Open-mindedness

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.

There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

If we can keep that flexibility of mind, that hospitality toward new ideas, we will be able to welcome the new flow of thought from wherever it comes, not resisting it; weighing and evaluating and exploring the strange new concepts that confront us at every turn. We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, "I have learned all I need to know; my opinions are fixed on everything. I refuse to change or to consider these new things." Not today. Not any more.

We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, "I have learned all I need to know; my opinions are fixed on everything. I refuse to change or to consider these new things." Not today. Not any more.

None of us can afford to stop learning or to check our curiosity about new things, or to lose our humility in the face of new situations.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

Truly tolerant people are hard to offend.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Truly informed sources rarely expect others to accept their conclusions simply because they assert them.

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

Be ready to be surprised. Be ready to hear evidence and arguments for positions you may not like. Be ready, even, to let yourself be swayed. True thinking is an open-ended process. The whole point is that you don't know when you start where you'll find yourself in the end.

The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.

Quien busque lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

Churchill once remarked that the Americans always came to the right decision, having tried everything else first. But even if the joke contained an element of truth, it underplayed the fact that they learned much more quickly than their self-appointed tutors in the British Army. They were not afraid to listen to bright civilians from the business world now in uniform and above all they were not afraid to experiment. The

A broad-minded person always appreciates the positive outlook, the narrow-minded people often admire only own outfits and looks.

A person is prudent if remains always an inquisitive student in the life's school to learn to empower oneself from each experience of others and own.

Business-minded or self-seeker preaches the audience to surround ownself with those who lift them up and foolish/selfish nature individuals easily get trapped in his bait; Open-minded guy knows that every person gets the people like friends & associates around oneself only of his/her own positive or negative character.

Doubt only makes a person to think out-of-the-box.