Quotes About Open-mindedness

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

so I preferred to take highly specific classes with interesting titles, even when I hadn't taken the prerequisites and had no idea what was going on. I could see how my way might be called aesthetic.

Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.

What is needed is just the courage to face inconsistencies and to avoid running away from them just because "that's the way it was always done".

Open-minded people will not necessarily agree with me, not when my arguments don't make sense to them. But open-minded people do listen, and if I explain (and when it is important), they are willing to invest in reevaluating their cause-and-effect connections.

We learn nothing by being right.

As to wearing the badge of a party, either in politics or religion, I may say that never in my life was I so far from coveting such a thing. And then poetry breathes in another outer air. And then there is not an existent set of any-kind-of-politics I could agree with if I tried —

I'm a Conservative, Connie." "That's okay," she answered. "You can switch.

I'm not a religious person, though I dabbled for a while.

Lord John, do stop gaping. A woman can possess a mind. If men gave more countenance to what ladies thought, the world would be a much more prosperous place.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

I'll not listen to reason…. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

Because they have never tried to get to know her. People are afraid of things they don't understand.

To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.

I am, I thought, capable of holding a hundred different points of view on any one idea at any one time. There is no real me.

Taryn knew a lot of people whom she thought of as intellectual snobs. What they were, in fact, were people incapable of relinquishing their sovereign sense that their identity was tied up with what they understood and enjoyed. And they liked to stay sure of themselves, so they never read or watched anything outside what they already approved as good or enjoyable for them.

Don't keep searching for the truth; Just let go of your opinions.

It's easy to remain blind about ourselves when we stay within the safety zone—among people who are just like us, in a place that looks like home. We can trick ourselves into thinking that we are far more open-minded and bighearted than we really are. It's when we must walk our talk in the complex landscape of a messy life that self-righteous ideals are whittled down into the honest truth.

They are I-don't-know-it-alls. They are not afraid to look dumb or make mistakes. Because of that, they go places others won't and try things others don't. That is where the new discoveries are lurking. "So

I'm not saying they're gods or anything of the kind. It's that we don't know how their minds work. We can't judge them by ourselves.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie in the arms of anyone who asked.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.