Quotes About Open-mindedness

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

So laß mir meinen Glauben, wie ich Dir den Deinigen lasse!

You've really got to listen and let them have their say. When they're done, ask, "What would you want?" or "What do you think would be the right thing to do?" When I was in my twenties, I had all the answers. Now that I'm in my eighties, I'm not so sure my answers are always right.

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

The point is that, whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it. Few of us, unfortunately, practice this precept; but other people, fortunately, will supply the criticism for us if we fail to supply it ourselves.

The point is that, whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow out solution, rather than defend it. Few of us, unfortunately, praise this precept; but other people, fortunately, will supply the criticism for us if we fail to supply it ourselves. Yet criticism will be fruitful only if we state our problem as clearly as we can and put our solution in a sufficiently definite form - a form in which it can be critically discussed.

Adev?rata ignoran?? nu este absen?a cunoa?terii, ci refuzul de a o dobândi.

We must not act like children reared with the narrow outlook "As it has been handed down to us".

La vera ignoranza non è la manca di cultura, ma il rifiuto di acquisirla.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions.

Hiçbir ?ey bilmiyoruz - bu birincisi. Bu yüzden çok alçakgönüllü olmal?y?z - bu ikincisi. Bilmedi?imiz halde bildi?imizi iddia etmemeliyiz. - bu da üçüncüsü. Halka sevdirmek istedi?im yakla??m kabaca budur. Ama gelece?i pek parlak görünmüyor. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

When my mom was alive, I'd gone to church more often. She'd told me once that she didn't believe that any one religion was doing it right, but that she was open to the fact that there might be a higher power. Sometimes she felt it at church, sometimes she'd felt it on the ocean" -Lucy

While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen

Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

I wish that I could thoroughly believe in some creed. I wish that I was ignorant enough to know one truth and discard all others.

I'm always intrigued by the different ways people decide what to believe. I mean, look at this -- they're taken from all over the place. Celtic knots, Eastern philosophy, the New Age. Past and present collapsed into a buffet of equivalent options all in pursuit of the divine.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.