Quotes About Open-mindedness

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

there is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and

I am an out of the box thinker, simply because I am claustrophobic.

The lack of one's understanding is set by the reality they are willing to accept.