Quotes About Open-mindedness

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

Those who rejected it wholesale, as Agassiz did, consigned themselves to increasing irrelevance. AGASSIZ

T. S. Eliot said it: "Old men ought to be explorers.")

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by it's covered; for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

All fanatics loathe the questioning mind and fear the truth.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Only your limited vision stops you seeing success...open your mind and you open your vision.

Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies.

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives.

You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you, but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

It is as easy to criticize other countries than ours as it is to find fault with other people than ourselves and both usually come from a lack of understanding. If we are looking for defects we are nearly certain to find them, while if we observe others with the purpose of learning and adapting for ourselves what is good in their lives and ways we gain much. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Farm Home; July 20, 1920 /

In Boulder, being of narrow mind was a much worse sin than appearing stupid.

Buda disse "Se sua boca estiver aberta, você não está aprendendo", e Calvin Coolidge disse, "Ninguém jamais foi despedido por escutar demais".

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it's covered; for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.