Quotes About Open-mindedness

To be honest, I can live anywhere.

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.

I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I grew up in Paris and in Japan. My parents didn't have any kind of glamorous jobs or anything - it just happened. We moved a lot and wanted to go to Tokyo, so we did it. They were never afraid to give up on the present and move on.

My dad really wanted to work in Tokyo and he made it happen. That's important in the way that I grew up. If my parents wanted to do something, then they would do it, and they always push me to try things, to not be afraid of changes and to go out in the world and not be bound by what we're supposed to do.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.

Tolerance is important, especially in a democracy. The ability to have honest conversations, even if you come from a different place, a difference perspective, is fundamentally important.

The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.