Quotes About Open-mindedness

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

Real men will eat anything I mean anything. I think the only food I have ever turned down was a boiled goat's head while hitch-hiking in Yugoslavia in the 1980s.

I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me.

Good people can disagree.

When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the world for faith, but when it comes to a scientific, political, and economic issue, dogma is not a very good place to start.

I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.

One good thing about being brought up with Chinese food from another country means that you're not a purist and you will accept deviation.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.

Rule? Press my type on others? Dreadful. Is not my happiness precisely the sight of many who are different ?

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

There are people who are opposed to all philosophy and one does well to listen to them.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion ... let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Those who call black black and white white are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.

Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everything.

Who would set a limit to the mind? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.

If you get mad at something that says 'Love Wins,' I don't know what to tell you.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

I wasn't an avid watcher of the original 'Star Trek.' But they'd pull out this thing to communicate without wires and you thought, 'Yeah, right.' Now... we're doing that with cellphones. So I think our minds are more open to the unimaginable.