Quotes About Open-mindedness

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world and never will.

Lots of people do things lots better than lots of others; but, today, so many people do so many things very well, and so many people are seriously interested in so many different things people do for their own different reasons, you can't call any thing the best for every person, or even every serious person. So you just pay real attention to the real things that affect you; and don't waste your time knocking the rest.

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I had ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little myself." He glanced up at the sphere of the wrestling arena aloft in the bar. "And they didn't seem so weird or strange anymore.

I can't bear literary snobbery.

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

Ask the young. They know everything.