Quotes About Open-mindedness

they are now totally untrained to handle ambiguity.

The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have.

withhold judgment in the absence of evidence

Simply, do not be narrow-minded.

I want to be broadly right rather than precisely wrong.

I have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I'm not giving a lesson or a sermon, I'm offering a dialogue, as I said before.

Those who believe they have "thought enough" and "learned enough" are on a downward trajectory of increasing unconsciousness.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and habilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. The accidents in my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office.

So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.

We learn many things, from many people as opposed to your world, where you're taught all the same things, by the same people.

Go down every rabbit hole, Tenka advised. Because some of them might actually have rabbits.

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

It does your mind good to talk to people different from you.

Beware the man of one book. He sleeps in his armour.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

Any idea, no matter how bizarre, can seem mainstream if you're able to find a handful of others who will believe along with you.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.