Quotes About Open-mindedness

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

One who cannot dance must not blame the song.

It is wise to read some books, and wise to throw away some.

Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!

Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

If you do not want others to laugh at your inherited god and faith, then, do not follow a hateful and stupid, a man-made sod and ism, mate.

In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong

If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.

Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

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

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

I'm a sponge, man. I'm a learner.

Anyone that continues to spread hate or fear or judgment or phobias doesn't deserve a platform.

One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.