Quotes About Open-mindedness

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.

When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.

Don't condemn what you can't comprehend

The best thing you can give a person is the courage and the desire to go beyond his culture, that little limited world of his!

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.

Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

Travel teaches as much as a teacher.

A person with a big ego usually knows very little.

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

The best wisdom is knowing not to judge anyone and to be kind to everyone.

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.

Adopt your own view and adapt with others' views