Quotes About Open-mindedness

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'

The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

I want to be a student for life.

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Give the benefit of the doubt; assume that your beloved's intentions are life-enhancing and positive.

Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.

I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. [Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

If you only value my advice when I agree with you, you don't value it at all.

Only a fool thinks he knows everything.

If you only value my advice when I agree with you, you don't value it at all

Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that it's not true.