Quotes About Open-mindedness

A man who won't listen can't hear.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we've never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seemed to me, then as now, that there were good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.

She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another?

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

but a wise man never closes all the options.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

People forget that stereotypes aren't bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

Do not limit your planning horizon to what can be accomplished with existing tools. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything will look like a nail.

If some people want to believe in Jesus, or Mohammed, or Buddha, or their ancestors, who is to say which is right and which wrong? It seems to me that most of the religions in the world are too dogmatic. They preach the 'live and let live' philosophy, but rarely do they practise it.

If you want my personal view I do not think it matters what you worship provided what you worship does no harm to others....You must remember always that one man's God may be another man's fairy tale, but both Gods and fairy tales have their place in the world.

The trouble with you hunting blokes is lack of imagination,' said Larry critically. 'I supply magnificent ideas – all you have to do is to try them out. But no, you condemn them out of hand.

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.

When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.