Quotes About Open-mindedness

Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn't really know very much. —1 Corinthians 8:2

Facing issues of this magnitude, it's unreasonable to think that anyone comes to the investigation with no personal hopes or preexisting beliefs. However

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing?

Why do you condemn a man you've never seen, a man no one knows, a man you know nothing about?

So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened? Exactly. No quest for truth? Where's your spirit of exploration? You never went to college, did you?

it's not wise to deny everything you can't understand.

But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old

When the instincts to virtue signal are combined with curiosity about science, open-mindedness about values and viewpoints, rationality about priorities and policies, and strategic savvy about ways and means, then wonderful things can happen.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

You have been reproaching other people all your life - you have been always sure you yourself are right: it is because you have not a mind large enough to see that there is anything better than your own conduct and your own petty aims.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

They often think that theirs is the only way to be a true progressive. That is sad. It keeps people who share progressive values from coming together. We

I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.

I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.