Quotes About Open-mindedness

A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.

Beware of a man of one book.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.