Quotes About Open-mindedness

If you fear not having answers to the questions you might ask yourself, remember that one of the hallmarks of innovative problem solvers is that they are willing to raise questions without having any idea of what the answer might be. Part of being able to tackle complex and difficult questions is accepting that there is nothing wrong with not knowing. People who are good at questioning are comfortable with uncertainty.

Often the worst thing you can do with a difficult question is to try to answer it too quickly. When the mind is coming up with What If possibilities, these fresh, new ideas can take time to percolate and form. They often result from connecting existing ideas in unusual and interesting ways.

What makes you think you know more than the experts? (The answer is that you don't know more, you know less—which sometimes is a good thing.) Another

If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?" As

All of which means that, whereas in the past one needed to appear to have "all the answers" in order to rise in companies, today, at least in some enlightened segments of the business world, the corner office is there for the askers

In a time when so much of what we know is subject to revision or obsolescence, the comfortable expert must go back to being a restless learner.

What might the potential for humans be if we really encouraged that spirit of questioning in children, instead of closing it down? I

I've always been very concerned with democracy. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Those who have different experiences and cultures will have ideas that can benefit us if we choose to be exposed to them.

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Just because we haven't seen a dragon, doesn't mean dragons don't exist." Louise stated the logic of why the scientists were reluctant to commit to a theory.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism

Always keep your eyes open. Don't block your own sunshine. Be filled with wonder.

She said, "But you can't skate in a sari." Razia [her friend] was already lacing her boots. "This is England," she said. "You can do whatever you like.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Freedom of expression does not judge its own opinion."

don't be the smartest person in the room, its corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room.* This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Die Selbstkritik hat viel für sich. Gesetzt den Fall, ich tadle mich; So hab' ich erstens den Gewinn, Daß ich so hübsch bescheiden bin; Zum zweiten denken sich die Leut, Der Mann ist lauter Redlichkeit; Auch schnapp' ich drittens diesen Bissen Vorweg den andern Kritiküssen; Und viertens hoff' ich außerdem Auf Widerspruch, der mir genehm. So kommt es denn zuletzt heraus, Daß ich ein ganz famoses Haus.

I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul.

Bilge insan, o an elinde olanla ya?amay? bilendir. Ters durumlardan da ç?karacak bir ?eyler bulunur: "Bundan da bir ?eyler ö?renebilirim." Ya?am boyu çok ?ey ö?renmi?tir ve çok ?ey biliyordur fakat tüm bilginin göreceli oldu?unu da biliyordur.

Qué es el sentido común sino la pereza inherente a nuestro entendimiento, de salir del recinto tan pequeño y tan mezquino de nuestras representaciones y admitir la posibilidad de otras premisas?

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?")