Quotes About Open-mindedness

Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

we should keep an open mind, asking how we might be mistaken, and whether the facts have changed.

I worry about a world in which many people will believe anything, but I worry far more about one in which people believe nothing beyond their own preconceptions.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded," wrote Philip Tetlock after the study had been completed. "It would be facile to reduce superforecasting to a bumper-sticker slogan, but if I had to, that would be it.

The teacher spoke: 'There could of course be some rational explanation. But why shouldn't a karamah operate by rational means? After all, miracles aren't the same as magic.' I asked if he thought al-Shadhili would perform a karamah for a non-Muslim. 'If your intention in visiting him is good, why not?' said the teacher.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.

You served too long under Lord Vader, Captain. I Have no qualms about accepting a useful idea merely because it wasn't my own. My position and ego are not at stake here.

I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they're the burden and bane of this world.

I remember when Deng said, 'It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.' To which Mao responded with a livid snarl: 'What emperor said that?

you respect a man who says what he believes, even if you disagree with it?

The mark of intellectual honesty is the solicitation of opposing points of view.

if team members believe that every idea gets fair consideration, and that a meritocracy allows their proposals to be judged across divisional and hierarchical lines, they tend to put all of their energy and their creative talents to work on ideas and proposals for change. They work harder, persist longer, and maintain their urgent optimism when they believe victory is just around the corner.

Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder, confessed the Chink, but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station in the area plays nothing but polkas, but I say you can dance to anything if you really feel like dancing. To prove it, he got up and danced to the news.

Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.

no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. However, Leigh-Cheri and Bernard were occupied with the nuances of an intricate dance, so let's be generous and cut them some slack.)

We must do all we can to imagine the Other before we presume to solve the problems work and life demand of us.

You have to live in the grey, or you have no kindness in your heart.

Before you run to tell somebody what they are doing is wrong, consider how you learned about it in the first place.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

Learn how to learn from those you disagree with or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.