Quotes About Open-mindedness

I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

We all like to think we are objective and open-minded, but that is sheer nonsense. Each of us holds certain attitudes and biases that prevent us from seeing the truth. The better we understand our biases, the better we can make adjustments.

Using no way as way

To free one's self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.

If reading the Bible intently and seriously gives breadth and depth to one's mind (and it certainly does), why not also the Mengzi? or the Bhagavad Gita? or Ch?shingura? There is more than one "great conversation" in the world, and more than one way to furnish a soul.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

We'll have to get over the idea that we're the greatest people on earth in every respect, that we're infallible and that no one else has ideas worth considering. One of the reasons we had to fight against odds on Guadalcanal was this insufferable American notion of superiority, and our carelessness in face of danger. It goes back to Pearl Harbor and far beyond.

Toleration is odious to the intolerant.

Se ve qué elásticos se vuelven nuestro rígidos prejuicios una vez que viene a plegarlos el amor.

we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?

Do not seek after truth. Merely cease to hold opinions.

Your reasoning is fine, but your experience is limited. Enlarge your experience, and your philosophy will be different.

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.