Quotes About Open-mindedness

This is a disease for the person who wants to experience it all.

As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

If we are humble, we are open to new ideas and new ways of seeing things. Open-mindedness is a very important part of humility. We don't know it all. There is still more we can learn. And maybe even more important, some we need to unlearn.

I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse. But I never tried to make anything of it. If I'd heard Louis and Bessie at a Girl Scout jamboree, I'd have loved it just the same.

People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.

As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.

If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. If

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one's slant accordingly—at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me—it's a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself—or around him.

You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot?

I have learned not to think little of any one's beliefs, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be.

I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

Antes de juzgar a una persona, camina durante tres lunas con sus mocasines.

Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris gets in our way.

Arquivo de riqueza no 17 As pessoas ricas aprendem e se aprimoram o tempo todo. As pessoas de mentalidade pobre acreditam que já sabem tudo.

Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with a new world, he did not try to force it to comply with his expectations, but began all over to learn the rules, without prejudice as to where the information came from.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know