Quotes About Open-mindedness

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.

I say to my congregants, "If you believe in God, the best thing you can do for yourself is to suspend your belief for a while, because undoubtedly your God is too small and you must grow beyond that God. On the other hand, if you don't believe in God, your very disbelief is a stumbling block. Kick it away and place your faith in somehting more ennobling than disbelief. Take a flier. Expand your purview. Take a leap of faith.

Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious. Not that I sit here glowing with pride For my book: all you'll find is laughter: That's all the glory my heart is after, Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Si te equivocas, admítelo con franqueza y prueba otra cosa. Pero, sobre todo, sigue intentándolo.

Never trust people who've only got one fucking book.

I hope I've shown a few disbelievers that they should never discount those they think are different, disorganised or distractible.

The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.

The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength.

Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and goodwill you'll find.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views simultaneously and still be able to operate. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if you're not ready for judgment.

Judge not unless you judge yourself

You have to be dumb enough to be smart enough to do a job you know nothing about. Loose the pride....

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

We should welcome all men of every shade of religious opinion, as among the best means of checking the arrogance and intolerance which are the almost inevitable concomitants of general conformity. Liberty always flourishes best amid the clash and competition of rival religious creeds.

Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

Why is it that every nation considers its own customs reasonable, and those of other nations amusing?

The reason why there are so many narrow-minded people in the world is, because there is so little travelling in it.

stubborn on vision, flexible on details