Quotes About Open-mindedness

We must remember that the rationalistic attitude of the West is not the only possible one and is not all-embracing, but is in many ways a prejudice and a bias that ought perhaps to be corrected.

we can form an objective judgment of the nation, race, or continent to which we belong only when we have lived for a time in a foreign country and so are able to look at our own country from without. How

A conscious capacity for one-sidedness is a sign of the highest culture, but involuntary one-sidedness, i.e., the inability to be anything but one-sided, is a sign of barbarism.

Do you think that the day you stop listening to new music is the day you decide you're on the path to old age? Like you've given up on new stuff and you resign yourself to music you've already heard? Like you're through discovering and all you want to do is rummage through your old things?

We shouldn't automatically oppose everything. I mean, what makes us so fucking smart? We're the beneficiaries of people before us figuring out shit that makes our lives better or helps us live longer. Why stop now, just because we think we know it all?

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Who can dispute that all scientific work should be studied carefully and critically considered? And having an open mind is also an asset, but not so open that your brains fall out.

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

Blind acceptance never leads to a solution; at best it leads only to a standstill and is paid for heavily in the next generation.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything that I can not explain as a fraud.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

if I cling to the notion that something's not possible, I'm arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.

There's nothing wrong. You are just happy because you met people who see the world differently.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.

I'm about to ask what he means by an "Allspaw," when he just waves my question away.

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.

I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet know.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.