Quotes About Open-mindedness

The future is dynamic and not fully in your control. Celebrate that fact instead of fighting it, and life gets a lot more interesting. Keep your eyes open, be humble and generous, and save time and attention for the spontaneous, the quirky, and the left field.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially.

A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.

It's difficult to dispel arrogance if you retain ignorance.

There's always the certainty that the opposite of what I might believe in might also be true.

I'm not mad. I've just read different books.

Groupthink can diminish the group as a whole.

What I loved about this was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong.

Instead of standing on the shore and convincing ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture onto its waters—just to see.

that if we keep our focus too tight, we miss the rest of the world swirling around us.

Kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong. If they aren't sure what to do in a particular situation, they'll just have a go at it and see how things turn out. This is not to suggest being wrong is the same thing as being creative. Sometimes being wrong is just being wrong. What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

no aceptas que piensas el mundo de muchas maneras diferentes, estarás limitando inexorablemente tus posibilidades de encontrar a la persona que se supone que tienes que ser. Una

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

But sometimes the quest for the right answer keeps us from testing a variety of good ones. In search of the right answer, we assume every answer other than the one we've settled on must be wrong. Forgetting that some things have more than one good answer. I'd like to think for example, that the question, "How can I love Ken?" might have many good answers, rather than one right one.

A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.

Sometimes we have to unlearn things before we can learn the right things.

But in order to look, one has to start with a beginner's mind that carries no preconceptions or presumptions. The beginner's mind looks to find out what is new; it does not look to confirm.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief