Quotes About Open-mindedness

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you're entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Imagine others complexly.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realise the Divinity within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formularies help you to realise the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, and whatever temples, and whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward, towards the brutes.