Quotes About Open-mindedness

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

You are a sceptic. Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith. What are you? To define is to limit.

It's 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.

Men scorn what they don't understand.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.

The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines.

The nobler type of man is broad-minded and not prejudiced. The inferior man is prejudiced and not broad-minded.

The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

One can never satisfy a closed mind

Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.

How can something get you thinking the wrong way, if you know how to think the right way?' Sammy asked.

Magnanimous Mind61 is like a mountain, stable and impartial. Exemplifying the ocean, it is tolerant and views everything from the broadest perspective. Having a Magnanimous Mind means being without prejudice and refusing to take sides.

I judge people by their own principles – not by my own.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

You may be right, dead right, as you speed along in your argument; but as far as changing another's mind is concerned, you will probably be just as futile as if you were wrong.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: 'I may be wrong. Let's examine the facts.

When someone expresses some feeling, attitude or belief, our tendency is almost immediately to feel "that's right," or "that's stupid," "that's abnormal," "that's unreasonable," "that's incorrect," "that's not nice." Very rarely do we permit ourselves to understand precisely what the meaning of the statement is to the other person.

Si hay un secreto del éxito, reside en la capacidad para apreciar el punto de vista del prójimo y ver las cosas desde ese punto de vista así como

No juzgues si no quieres ser juzgado

perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.

Contact with other peoples is often represented as making inevitably for tolerance. But that is true only for those who have already been greatly educated to tolerance. The simple man everywhere is apt to see whatever differs from himself as an affront, a challenge, and a menace.