Quotes About Open-mindedness

Another weakness found in altogether too many people is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.

Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in the ascendency. The world depression brought the opportunity you have been waiting for. It taught people humility, tolerance, and open-mindedness. The world is filled with an abundance of OPPORTUNITY which the dreamers of the past never knew.

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. You are never ready for a thing until you believe you can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

you can deliver your soul from most of the narrow restrictions that bind the majority of your fellow men. Do not give your time and strength to the support of obsolete institutions, religious or otherwise; do not be bound by creeds in which you do not believe. Be free.

Lembre-se disso e mantenha as portas da sua mente hermeticamente fechadas contra todos os pensamentos que procuram limitá-lo de qualquer maneira e você assim ficará a salvo.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start.

There is a difference between Wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

Rational flâneur (or just flâneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flâneur is called "looking for optionality.

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.

be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.

Let me insist that erudition is important to me. It signals genuine intellectual curiosity. It accompanies an open mind and the desire to probe the ideas of others. Above all, an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the simplifications of the five-minute manager, or the philistinism of the overspecialized scholar. Indeed, scholarship without erudition can lead to disasters.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

There are so many things we can do if we focus on antiknowledge, or what we do not know.

The only condition for such brand of more sophisticated rationalism: to believe and act as if one does not have the full story—to be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.

not accepting other people's wisdom as gospel.

Once in a while you encounter members of the human species with so much intellectual superiority that they can change their minds effortlessly.

religion without tolerance

They thought out of the box, like traders, except much better and without fear of introspection.

because we take what we know a little too seriously.

the tendency to look at what confirms our knowledge, not our ignorance)

It was taken for granted that people learned to be tolerant there;

in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment.