Quotes About Open-mindedness

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.