Quotes About Open-mindedness

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

It's amazing to see how if we don't open our minds to something different, we wont evolve as a species.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

I don't have one specific person that I think is the most athletic person.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

I'm not saying that people should believe in a specific thing or a specific way, but if everyone has the knowledge they need to have, then they can make their own decisions. That's the key thing: to have the information.

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.

Being from the countryside gave me a spine, and it's why I'm so accepting - I don't judge people for how they look or how they talk... I just accept everyone.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.