Quotes About Open-mindedness

A wise person should be learning more all the time, which will require him to develop new ideas and opinions, even if they contradict ones he had in the past.

If you make it clear that you are dead serious and will fight to the end about a particular issue, you force more possibilities to arise.

I want to be taught, not told. I don't mind being proven wrong or trumped provided I learn something, but I did not follow decrees well.

Changing a name doesn't change reality. But I withheld judgment. The wise engage all new things with an open mind. I wouldn't learn anything new if I judged them before getting my hands dirty, despite how much more fun judging things with clean hands can be.

To rely on a single model is hubris.

Don't become so attached to your ideas that you lose objectivity.

Only two kinds of people can not change their minds, my friend, the foolish and the dead.

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.