Quotes About Open-mindedness

she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows

Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.

If Marx at twenty-two had a problem, it was that he was attracted to too many things and people.

She dates some - women and men. She has slipped into bisexuality without needing to make a big thing about it. She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

A good game designer knows that clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work.

Why was it acceptable for apparently well-meaning people to see the world in such a general way?

Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting." The world seemed filled with interesting books to read, interesting plays and movies to see, interesting games to play, interesting food to taste, and interesting people to have sex with and sometimes even to fall in love with. To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.

En su opinión, con solo que la gente diera una oportunidad a muchas cosas, se resolverían la mayoría de sus problemas.

I have thoughts about this. Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Que algo sea bueno o aceptado universalmente no es motivo suficiente para rechazarlo.

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

Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.

Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be threatened by some of them. Moreover, it doesn't occur to most adults that there are questions that a child can ask that they can't provide a definitive answer to and that aren't answered in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia either.

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.

We can increase insights by exposing ourselves to lots of different ideas that might help us form new connections.

you don't expect much, if you don't inquire in a way that respects the intelligence of the other person, you probably won't find many insights.

When she gets into an argument, a humble person considers the fact that she may be wrong and that there may be something she has missed or is overlooking. She is more concerned with walking in light and truth than with being right. Aware of his spiritual poverty, a humble person prays and studies and confesses and asks people to hold him accountable, as he knows he is a work in progress.

the whole trouble with [Julian] Hawthorne is his -conventional- mind. He cannot understand things that are not, but which might be, or ought to be. [Jack London, in a letter from 1905]