Quotes About Open-mindedness

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

Why travel - because the world was meant to be experienced, not imagined.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.