Quotes About Open-mindedness

Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.

Tendemos a encasillar en una categoría preexistente cualquier relación nueva que entablamos.

Cixi's tolerance of attacks on her government-and on herself-as well as her willingness to permit a diversity of viewpoints were rematched by any of her predessors or, arguably, her successors.

And before you embark on an argument or a debate, ask yourself honestly if you are ready to change your mind.

In other words, when making an effort to understand something strange and alien to you, it is important to assume that the speaker share the same human nature as yourself and that, even though your belief systems may differ, you both have the same idea of what constitutes truth.

The other important thing to understand is that as humans we see only a segment of reality in the greater cosmic scheme of things, so we are really never in a position to judge anyone or anything.

Don't be so openminded your brain falls out.

Filosofia se tr?deaz? pe sine atunci când degenereaz? în dogmatism, adic? într-o ÅŸtiin?? fixat? în formule, definitiv?, complet?. A face filozofie înseamn? a fi pe drum; în filozofie întreb?rile sunt mult mai importante decât r?spunsurile, ÅŸi fiecare r?spuns devine o nou? întrebare

Acogeré con los brazos abiertos todos los juicios de la crítica científica. En cuanto a los prejuicios de la llamada opinión pública, a la que jamás he hecho concesiones, seguiré ateniéndome al lema del gran florentino: Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti! (III) Londres, 25 de julio de 1867. CARLOS MARX

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.