Quotes About Open-mindedness

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

I don't mind dating younger men now.

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

No man can see his own prejudices.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.