Quotes About Open-mindedness

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

What you should do is hire very smart people who are a good fit. And then you should expose them (and yourself) to ideas. The ideas should come from within and from outside.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Being able to alter your belief in what is real is critical in learning to RV.

was temporarily suspending my disbelief, to allow an unusual experience to happen.

But who exactly wanted you to look beyond the obvious choices?

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

it was then I recognized that my own values --- the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman --- they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

case, it was then I recognized that my own values—the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

In any case, it was then I recognized that my own values—the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence.

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

In any case, it was then I recognized that my own values - the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman - they were not the only, nor the best values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

We tend to forget that not only must we gain inner freedom from one another, but we must also leave the other free and abandon any fixed concept we may have of him in our imagination.

I must not feel bound to ignore something today because I rejected it in the past. Books that seem to contain nothing worthwhile when I first read them may have much to teach when read by eyes of more mature experience. (Tuesday 8th October 1822)

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. - Indian (Native American) Proverb Source: The International thesaurus of quotations, p. 331. (Reference from Mead Public Library.)