Quotes About Open-mindedness

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting just one kind of fruit.

Deep listening simply means listening with compassion. Even if the other person is full of wrong perceptions, discrimination, blaming, judging, and criticizing, you are still capable of sitting quietly and listening, without interrupting, without reacting. Because you know that if you can listen like that, the other person will feel enormous relief. You remember that you are listening with only one purpose in mind: to give the other person a chance to express themselves

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so." The ABC of Relativity [1925]

We need to come out of our silos. Open the doors and come out into the air and the light. Hack through a wall and make a door if necessary. Expand our horizons. Understand that divergent viewpoints can be valid. That sympathetic viewpoints can be false. And that we need to be able to discern the difference.

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

In ogni innamorato c'è sempre una forza enorme che non ha finché è un uomo libero; ma nell'uomo libero c'è un'ampiezza di vedute che cercheremmo invano in un innamorato. Dove c'è molta parzialità ci sarà sempre anche una certa ristrettezza mentale, e l'amore, sebbene comporti maggiori emozioni, comporta anche minore perspicacia. (Via dalla pazza folla)

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

I think poetry must I think it must Stay open all night In beautiful cellars.

It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being "reasonable" that we become, ourselves, unreasonable.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers. Like

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Don't limit the Lord with your own shallow perceptions of Him, or assign Him a level of compassion equal only to yours …

I want to live a lot of different lives, not just one. I wish I could have lived forever, in every age and every country, seen everything and done everything and felt everything." p. 193

I try to be open-minded, to judge each individual on merit and accomplishment. I hold no bias against any belief system, sexual orientation, or skin color that differs from mine. I do not hate in stereotype.

Tunnel vision is no way to make it as a researcher. Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you'll fail to see what's right under your nose.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." —Alvin Toffler I