Quotes About Open-mindedness

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The Mishna Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the Fathers, 4:1 teaches: "Who is wise? He who learns from every person.

Todo lo vivido aprovecha, de una u otra forma. Excepto para los fanáticos y los imbéciles.

desconfíen siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.     Ignoro

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

Desconfíen siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.

You want to have faith. But you also want to reserve the right to challenge your own faith when it suits you.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

Why not, above all, learn to look more generously at each other as well as at ourselves?

As I see it, the future of investing belongs to those who are flexible in their thinking and capable of moving easily from one segment of the market to another.

Para os profissionais liberais, executivos e trabalhadores das empresas, a frase Se você não mudar, morrerá quer dizer que, se não pensarem pela empresa e se reciclarem, serão ultrapassados, perderão sua competência. Se não abrirem as janelas de sua mente para prevenir erros e fazer além do que lhes é exigido, sufocarão o brilho de sua inteligência, deixarão de ser úteis.

for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.

The history of ideologies should teach modesty, or at least warn against fixations and biases.

Reason --open-minded and self-critical-- remains the key to our species' tremendous success.

A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.

not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

If you can doubt at points where other people feel no impulse to doubt, then you are making progress.

A man who is always rushing into the street will become familiar with the street. One who is forever changing from subject to subject will not become painfully acquainted with any one, but he will know the outsides of them all, and the road from each to the other.

I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school... whatever... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I'm not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.