Quotes About Open-mindedness

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

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

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Travel teaches toleration.

During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular--afraid to stand alone in their thinking.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it's OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.