Quotes About Open-mindedness

As we read the Bible, we are not only to bring our critical intelligence with us, but also to listen.

The notion that there was one "right" way of seeing things disappeared. This was enormously liberating, even if a bit alarming. But my curiosity was greater than my fear.

We should not be too confident in our belief of anything. (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations I.32)

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

The things I believe can't all be true, though one of them must be. But I believe all of them, all three versions of Luke, at once and the same time. This contradictory way of believing seems to me, right now, the only way I can believe anything. Whatever the truth is, I will be ready for it.

A lot of people call you a feminist painter. What indeed, I say. I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?

Overall, people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.19

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

People said, 'You must be mad, or on drugs,' which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you're on drugs or mad, rather than free.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often