Quotes About Open-mindedness

It is often the case that when you broaden the frame, you reach more reasonable decisions.

It is more useful to pay attention to people who disagree with you than to pay attention to those who agree.

is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Might

The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership (2005). He advises that a leader "needs to be able to see the shades of gray inherent in a situation in order to make wise decisions as to how to proceed" (p. 7). He encourages leaders to examine all arguments without forming an opinion, using an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote for support: "The test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time while still retaining the ability to function

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

But" is a three-letter stroke of genius. It keeps things in perspective. It prevents me from turning too rigid and self-righteous. It reminds me that hardly anything in life is black or white.

Un bon livre se retrouve toujours entre les mains d'un lecteur libre. Sinon il n'y reste pas longtemps, le mauvais lecteur cherche à se débarrasser de tout ce qui ne ressemble pas à ce qu'il a déjà lu. Lire n'est pas nécessaire pour le corps (cela peut même se révéler nocif), seul l'oxygène l'est. Mais un bon livre oxygène l'esprit.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

All of which is to the purpose that I have travelled more than most, by means that provoke looks of askance at the merest telling of them,

When your only tool is a hammer, so the saying goes, everything looks like a nail.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

I am willing to taste any drink once.

Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.

We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

It is a good thing to have two ways of looking at a subject, and to admit that there are two ways of looking at it.

We all learn new things from places and people we never imagined we would and that my friends are how you grow in life until the day you die

You may be on the level of thinking outside the box, moving up a level is realizing What Box?.

You need to train yourself not to judge people on the spot as besides it being not cool to do and hinders your personal growth it also has a major impact on your life as the person in overalls with no teeth may just be that billionaire God sent your way to answer your prayer for help in life

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, 'Wait. Let me see.' And above all, you must be honest with yourself.

It is perhaps too much the case with the multitude in every nation, that as they know little beyond themselves, and their own affairs, so out of this narrow sphere of knowledge, they think nothing worth knowing.

they didn't think there was anything very odd in anyone being a little odd.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.