Quotes About Open-mindedness

To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.

When we judge others we leave no room to love them.

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

I don't know much, But when push comes to shove, I definitely don't believe, There's such a thing as wrong love.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

When you are tightly boxed in or cornered—all too often by your own stubborn and fixed adherence to some unconsciously worshipped assumptions—all there is to help you is what you have not yet learned.

It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.

The totalitarian says, in essence, "You must rely on faith in what you already know." But that is not what saves. What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know. That is faith in the possibility of human transformation. That is faith in the sacrifice of the current self for the self that could be.

a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

If you listen, instead, without premature judgment, people will generally tell you everything they are thinking—and with very little deceit. People will tell you the most amazing, absurd, interesting things. Very few of your conversations will be boring. (You can in fact tell whether or not you are actually listening in this manner. If the conversation is boring, you probably aren't.)

Have some humility. Clean up your bedroom. Take care of your family. Follow your conscience. Straighten up your life. Find something productive and interesting to do and commit to it. When you can do all that, find a bigger problem and try to solve that if you dare. If that works, too, move on to even more ambitious projects. And, as the necessary beginning to that process . . . abandon ideology.

DA POR HECHO QUE LA PERSONA A LA QUE ESCUCHAS PUEDE SABER ALGO QUE TÚ NO SABES

Atención porque cambiar de opinión debido a una nueva comprensión, y más si llega con gozo intelectual incluido, no es una muestra de debilidad ni supone una merma en la credibilidad del intelectual sino, más bien, lo contrario, una muestra de fuerza y una garantía de de credibilidad.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

A única perspetiva falsa é a que pretende ser única.

El hereje no es el que arde en la hoguera, sino el que la enciende". La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud suprema en los que piensan.

La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud suprema en los que piensan.

La curiosidad intelectual es la negación de todos los dogmas y la fuerza motriz del libre examen

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.