Quotes About Open-mindedness

I want to do everything. I can never decide on one occupation!

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible.

as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

I know everything I need to know already, Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. So tell me, said Rigg. I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...

Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.

it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They go along because they don't know how to be alone, either physically or intellectually.

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

He's a pig," said Shen. Ender shrugged. "On the whole, pigs aren't so bad.

It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

The story is nothing like what you first thought it would be. But so what? It's better - richer, deeper, truer - than the original idea. The idea did its work: it got you thinking. After that, if you feel bound to stick to it no matter what, that idea becomes a ball and chain that you drag with you through the whole process.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.