Quotes About Open-mindedness

Tolerance exists.

I'd like to have more tolerance.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.

Today, I don't think anyone would think that a mixed-race couple looks odd; I think it's considered perfectly normal. In a very short time frame, the country has changed so much, and for the better. Britain has become, I think, the most tolerant and open-minded country in the world.

I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Those who only tolerate people they agree with or like aren't actually tolerant.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

But don't we need to cross over? Is this not a moral imperative for art, but also for social discourse? Don't we need to imagine people different from ourselves, people whose experiences we can only imagine?

Oh dear," said my mother, turning to Marmie and going "Ce Justin, est-il gai?" (This Justin, is he gay?) Marmie handed her a hot chocolate and shrugged. "Qui sait? Je ne suis pas se petite amie." (Who knows? I'm not his girlfriend.)

I don't have the prejudices many have today. I don't believe in a naturalist worldview. I don't base my thinking on prejudices or a worldview and do not believe in materialism- (From an interview as cited in the Book the Literature of Possibility by Tom Butler-Bowden).

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

Curiosity, irreverence, imagination, sense of humor, a free and open mind, an acceptance of the relativity of values and of the uncertainty of life, all inevitably fuse into the kind of person whose greatest joy is creation.

It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

prefer to die not knowing something, rather than live my entire life believing something was so, only to find out later that it wasn't true.

In a recent survey, innovative people — from inventors to scientists, writers to programmers — were asked what techniques they used. Over 70% believed they got their best ideas by exploring areas they were not experts in

Effective PMs simply consider more alternatives before giving up than other people do.