Quotes About Open-mindedness

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

The rule of thumb we've been using is that Deolaters are welcome as long as they're not certain they're right," I said. "As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for." "Do

Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion—and this no known religion can tolerate. Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own.

No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.

If there is a person, place, or thing with which you do not agree, you attack it. If there is a religion that goes against yours, you make it wrong. If there is a thought that contradicts yours, you ridicule it. If there is an idea other than yours, you reject it. In this you err, for you create only half a universe. And you cannot even understand your half when you have rejected out of hand the other.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

Or maybe arguing with people you disagree with takes less effort than exploring why they think differently from you.

I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?

El problema de no advertir la cultura propia es uno de los grandes placeres de viajar al extranjero: descubrir lo que uno no ha visto en el propio país y advertir lo que los demás no conocen acerca de ellos mismos.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

FIRST PROBLEM FOR ALL OF US, MEN AND WOMEN, IS NOT TO LEARN BUT TO UNLEARN.

As we say, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.

If it works, good, if it doesn't, then move on, I will try something else. This is my style of humor and with time, I've understood that people like it and it is working.