Quotes About Open-mindedness

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

It doesn't affect my authority if I change my stance on something. If I have to reconsider a decision, I will.

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

We try to take a very strong stance against discrimination and hatred.

It's simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what's going on.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.