Quotes About Open-mindedness

And I like their humor," Septimus went on. "They know how to laugh at themselves and each other—they like to laugh, they don't see any sin in it, or any danger to their dignity. They like to argue. They don't feel it a mortal wound if anyone queries what they say, indeed they expect to be questioned.

And if they are forced to a new idea, they turn it over like a child with a toy.

We are dogmatic only when it comes to defending our lack of dogma.

She needed to keep an open mind. She might have been hasty in dismissing the entire male gender.

But what if it's someone who's not our type? Someone who wears the back of her collar up or something?' 

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.

Great leaders embrace deviants by searching for them and catching them doing something right.

Based on who they are and what they want and what they know, everyone is right. Every time.

A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.

Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.

Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of other faiths without being burdened by the conviction that I am embarked upon a "true path" that they have missed.

We tend to reduce everyone else to the limits of our own mental universe and begin privileging our own ethics, morality, sense of duty and even our sense of utility. All religious conflicts arose from this propensity to judge others. If we indeed must judge at all, then it must be "according to his own ideal, and not by that of anyone else".

To accept people as one finds them, to allow them to be and become what they choose, and to encourage them to do whatever they like (so long as it does not harm others) is my natural instinct.

Tr?i ?, bà nói. Ai quan tâm n?u má»™t ng??i Ä'àn ông mu?n l?y má»™t ng??i Ä'àn ông khác? Bà ch? mu?n bi?t là ai s? Ä'i nh?t ??ng t?t b?n thôi? ------------------------------------- Trích Nh?t ký hoàn toàn có th?t c?a má»™t ng??i Anh ?iêng bán th?i gian

If I said I wouldn't toss him out of my bed for eating crackers, would you leave me alone? (Grace) Maybe. What else wouldn't you toss him out of bed for? (Selena) Eating greasy grimy gopher guts? (Grace)

Bubba was the one person who wouldn't even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an "imaginary" friend. Heck, he'd probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.