Quotes About Open-mindedness

trans community is entitled to fight for their rights, you need to be more open-minded on that score or you'll risk becoming irrelevant, I've

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

Take it with a grin of salt.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Education should teach children how to think, but should never tell them what to think. It should sharpen and polish the instruments of thought, but should not fix them into a machine made to cut out one special shape.

I don't think it's spiritually economic to be a skeptic about absolutely everything.

If you already know all the answers, you can't ask questions.

That is like deciding that you shouldn't take a Spanish class because you don't already speak the language.

One of the most encouraging new discoveries that the human brain has made about itself is that it can physically change itself by changing its accustomed ways of thinking, by deliberately exposing itself to new ideas and routines, and by learning new skills.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

I'm sort of a baseball agnostic; I make it a point never to believe anything just because it is widely known to be so.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

everyone you meet knows something you don't

the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.