Quotes About Open-mindedness

I don't think it makes sense to set high goals about how my ideal woman should be. It is like calling for trouble. That would make one close-minded and not open to meeting different kinds of people.

The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.

I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

Americans do not want to think that there is an alternative to what we have. Therefore, as soon as you say 'fascism' or whatever it might be, then the American response is to say 'no' because we lack the categories that allow us to think outside of the box that we are no longer in.

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.