Quotes About Open-mindedness

Mi perdoni tanta veemenza, Dmitrij Petrovi?» disse Å trum. «Ma lei mi insegna che i fisici la amano non solo perché è un'autorità, ma perché la sua autorità non l'ha mai usata per sopraffare qualcuno, perché la gioia di lavorare insieme a lei non viene dal dogmatismo, ma dalla possibilità di discutere vivacemente, persino con foga.

With certain kinds of people,we allow for the potential development of all the beauties of human virtue within a faith that is different from our own

La tolerancia es la mejor religión

The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST

You can't judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.

Do not be afraid to ask your questions. But you must always be sure your heart is open to hear the answers.

You can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

There's no better cure for snobbiness than a good a** kicking.

Nobody can imprison our souls unless we ourselves lock them behind the bars of narrow prejudice.

Keeping an open mind is a virtue," Carl Sagan wrote in The Demon-Haunted World, the last book he published, but "not so open that your brains fall out…. I have a foreboding of an America when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." That was twenty years ago.

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Don't be such a human

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information?

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

Tessa: I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" Will: "I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

The six most expensive words in business are: We've always done it that way.

When somebody holds a view that seems to make no sense, know that it makes sense to them, but for reasons you don't know anything about yet. And I guess in a lot of cases,