Quotes About Open-mindedness

Every creative act involves... a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

FRANK, peeved: The trouble with you is, you don't believe in anything. JIM: And your trouble is that you believe in anything. You didn't see my kid this morning, did you?

There was probably a range of people she had never experienced in this world and for which she had no preparation

Nossa vaidade congênita, especialmente suscetível em tudo o que diz respeito à capacidade intelectual, não quer aceitar que aquilo que num primeiro momento sustentávamos como verdadeiro se mostre falso, e verdadeiro aquilo que o adversário sustentava.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

SEEING THE TRUTH MEANS looking at everything for the first time, every time.

Dennis asked, "Do you enjoy jazz? Because I love it, and I know of a place downtown where we could go." "And then we can have broken glass and arsenic for dinner!" I felt like replying, because I barely tolerated jazz when I encountered it in elevators or dental offices. But I considered that when you meet somebody who really loves something, the high-road thing to do is to try to love it, too, so I wrote back, "That sounds great!

All beliefs are worth examining. The key is to notice your beliefs, and test them – not necessarily discard them.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, creating in them a fear to speak or act. The great key to this communication is to learn to listen attentively with understanding to the other person's point of view creating an atmosphere of love and approval.

You'll often hear the phrase science doesn't know everything. Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

Better sexy and racy than sexist and racist.

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

Single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react.

Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.