Quotes About Open-mindedness

Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.

We do want to provide a physical and emotional release, but we also want to create an atmosphere where people are encouraged to think for themselves rather than accept what they've been told.

certain kinds of music will never be accepted by certain people.

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.

G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), "If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything." That

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. Why deny yourself all that pleasure? so look around tonight or this weekend, see what catches your fancy on the bookshelf, at the library, or in the bookstore. Maybe try something a little unusual, a little different. And then don't stop. Do it again, with a new book or an old author the following week. Go on--be bold, be insatiable, be restlessly, unashamedly promiscuous.

people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

To imagine Canada as a citizen requires that you enter into he mind of someone who does not believe what you believe or share what matters to you.

To maintain an open mind about the future, it is very useful to keep an open mind about the past.

Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don't know," said

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. —Leo Tolstoy, 1897

the people who already saw themselves as experts in the field would be least capable of original thought.

The smart person accepts. The idiot insists.

I always felt a bit like a child in all this but having the eyes of a child and a sense of awe and no firmly held perspective to begin with was how I could help in some small way. I never had anything to unlearn.

Al hombre más torpe se le pueden explicar los temas más difíciles si no se ha formado todavía ninguna idea de ellos; pero no se puede aclarar ni aun lo más sencillo al hombre más inteligente si está firmemente convencido de que conoce ya, sin la menor sombra de duda, lo que se presenta ante él.   LIEV TOLSTÓI, 1897

I think it is easier to take someone in the fishing industry and teach him about currency trading," he says, "than to take someone from the banking industry and teach them how to fish." He then explained why fishing

Whenever Thomas Edison was about to hire a new employee, he would invite the applicant over for a bowl of soup. If the person salted his soup before tasting it, Edison would not offer him the job. He did not hire people who had too many assumptions built into their everyday life. Edison wanted people who consistently challenged assumptions.

Mysticism," he likes to say, "is the antidote to fundamentalism.

By the grace of this forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time

It gave us permission to try weird shit in cahoots with other people.

People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook - qualities they believe they've simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.