Quotes About Open-mindedness

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual "truth."

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad.

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

Diversity is wisdom.

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

Don't conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.