Quotes About Open-mindedness

I really am one of those people who are mixed on many issues and can see many legitimate sides.

People love to take sides, but it's not effective. It's not really an effective way of communicating something, because you're either already part of the side or you're going to feel attacked and get defensive.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

We'll have all sorts of crazy signals. And you'd be a damned fool if you didn't look for things you weren't expecting, because that's probably what you're going to see first.

In the beginning, I got different kind of roles, and then I realised it's great to be that way. And that thought is always there before signing a film.

Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere.

To think that everybody's like you is silly.

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.

When an idea pops into our head and we think, "No, this is too crazy," … that's the idea we want. When we think, "This notion is completely off the wall … should I even take the time to work on this?" … the answer is yes. Never doubt the soup. Never say no. The answer is always yes.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

You can believe anything you like.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

Self-questioning is a far more essential ingredient in life than I ever supposed. It's the water that keeps the modeling clay of our life from hardening into something forever rigid and unchanging.

to hold opposing ideas in my head without conflict.

It is unlucky to be stubborn in the face of insurmountable odds

No principle in the world is always right, and no thing is always wrong. What was used yesterday may be rejected today, what is rejected now may be used later on. This use or disuse has no fixed right or wrong. To avail yourself of opportunities at just the right time, responding to events without being set in your ways, is in the domain of wisdom. If your wisdom is insufficient, even if you are widely learned and highly skilled, you'll come to an impasse wherever you go.

So!, I thought, for the first time, there's more than one path to happiness! I likes that. I thought they were brave. I didn't want to be them, but I liked that they wanted to be them. It opened a world of possibilities in my mind, just the idea that every thing was much bigger than I thought.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

It's important to give people the benefit of the doubt even if they don't deserve it.

art was an important way to expand the mind. It wasn't about ability but being able to think in different ways. To have tangible proof that there are dozens of ways to solve a single problem.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

Tribalism will always make your world smaller; universalism is the only way to expand it.