Quotes About Open-mindedness

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Nunca moriría por mis creencias porque podría estar equivocado (Bertrand Russell)

It is outrageous arrogance for any one faith in God to believe it is the be-all and end-all of religion. That all other faiths are wrong.

They welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Acts 17:11

All the enemy has to do to spread a lie is to twist the truth. Stay alert and open-minded. His Word is alive!

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

I want to stay open. I don't want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.

In today's world, where everybody is so anticipating the next great thing and everyone is so ready to shut the door on people, I don't really care what the world says.

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

We need to ban this whole culture of shutting down and banning things.

When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that because I had a call for civility that that means I shy away from debate and that I'm agreeable. That's not the case. What is the case is that I will not question who you are as a person.

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

Be open-minded so you can always see the other side of the coin.

Hear the other side.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

By nature, I am someone who hews to the middle. I need to hear all sides of a story. Unless I am engaged in a tough round of dominoes or Scrabble, I think of myself as unreasonably reasonable.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

It's very important when you are young you don't take sides; you look at everything fresh and see, what is the best thing we can do? For ourselves, for the society in which we live, the country in which we live, the world in which we live, what's the best thing we can do?