Quotes About Open-mindedness

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

Truth is not private property.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Hear the truth from whomever says it

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.