Quotes About Open-mindedness

You don't have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don't pity me for my faith. And don't presume that you're better, just because you believe something different.

We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.

I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving.

You don't have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don't pity me for my faith. And don't premuse that you're better, just because you believe something different.

But the person who is willing to reconsider their assumptions? The hero who can sit down and reevaluate their life? Well, now that is a gemstone that truly glitters, friend.

I can see that the variety of humankind is what gives you strength. Your ability to change your minds, to go against what you once thought, can be a great advantage.

There will be people like this in any culture, for every society is made of individuals. You must learn this. Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.

We have to listen to understand in the same way we want to be understood.

we can fight our tendency to accept binaries by asking what additional perspectives are missing between the extremes.

we're at our most dangerous when we think we've learned everything we need to know

Self-righteousness is the conviction that one's beliefs and behaviors are the most correct.

Adam is a number one New York Times bestselling writer, and his latest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, might be my new favorite.

York Times bestselling writer, and his latest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know,

Whenever possible, you gotta try to see the goings-on of life through more eyes than just your own, because that can help you see things more clearly.

Impressions form images that become fixed ideas that give birth to prejudices. Anthony De Mello said, "If you are prejudiced, you will see that person from the eye of that prejudice. In other words, you will cease to see this person as a person."[12] The pharisee within spends most of his time reacting to labels, his own and others'.

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own.

I am content that others should be wiser than I.

I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, — or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?