Quotes About Open-mindedness

You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

In our world, surely the worst thing anyone can say is; 'No further inquiry is needed. You've already got all you need to know.' It is the most sinister and dangerous thing.

To believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.

croire en un dieu est une façon d'exprimer une disposition à croire en n'importe quoi. Tandis que rejeter la croyance n'est d'aucune manière professer que l'on ne croit en rien.

Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps because they suspected that it could not withstand exposure to more vigorous ideas.

How would I feel if I woke up and she told me that we had done it while I slept? I'd be fine with it. A little sad that I missed things, but I wouldn't be mad. I'd just ask her if I had a good time. Women are different, though.

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

What is possible is subjective. It's a matter of perspective.

I'm not sure you would understand." The elf folded his hands in his lap. "I might not; that is true. But then, you cannot know for certain unless you try to explain.

You cannot help but be human, yet you do not have to be bound by what those around you believe.

It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

Maybe," said Thane, "we aren't as clubfooted as you are.

Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility.

Approaching everyone you encounter as though they have something valuable to teach you—something that you will benefit from—is the best way to remain flexible, open-minded, and much less stressed.

Hui Shi was set on using the calabash to hold water, never thinking that he could use water to hold the calabash.

la intolerancia salvaje se ataja de raíz, a través de una educación constante que empiece desde la más tierna infancia, antes de que se escriba en un libro y antes de que se convierta en costra de conducta demasiado espesa y dura.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything... He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Play your music, read your books, think your own thoughts, and never let yourselves be drawn into an argument! Not an altogether satisfactory way of life, but the only one possible in times when the world is changing so fast that parents and children may be a thousand years apart in their ideas and ideals.

It is perfectly possible that what has ever been exists always, and that what is going to be has likewise existed always. So I decided to take a new attitude of mind; I am ready to believe anything if I get enough evidence, and I hesitate before I say that anything is impossible

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

And she keeps in touch with Stacey, who isn't averse to doing foreigners for an old friend either.

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as one is forced to think.