Quotes About Open-mindedness

There's more to life than just London,' said Nightingale. 'People keep saying that,' I said. 'But I've never actually seen any proof.

The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.

I try not to jump to conclusions about anything I feel I've seen or heard before. I try not to write off music my kids play me as "throwback" even if it closely resembles something that I thought was new when I was a kid. Sure, I want to put on the seventies' English band the Jam and say, See! Your new little punk bands are just shiny versions of this! But I'd be wrong. To diminish the new as nothing more than a rehash is a mistake.

The Double Cross idea had always been based on lateral thinking without boundaries, a willingness to contemplate plans that others would dismiss as unworkable or, frankly, barmy.

You're suffering from some serious myopia my friend.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

must be prepared to think outside the box,

but I was aware of the "case-by-case" approach and did not object.

You remained determined, open-minded, and creative in your effort to do what was best for the country.

Don't get caught in the trap of believing you have to know everything about everything

UCSD provost David Jordan is more blunt: "Why should I teach a point of view I don't agree with?

The universities accept into their waiting clutches young, open-minded students ready to learn. They turn out mainstream liberals, spouting the Democratic party line—and that's just the "moderate" students.

If we all sit in our living rooms and avoid one another, interacting only to prop up our preconceived notions, we're less likely to see those who disagree as brothers and sisters.

Travel teaches toleration.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

There are three kinds of people: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those who move.

if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service.

the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction,

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may be.