Quotes About Open-mindedness

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

Creeds and schools in abeyance

This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, Argue not concerning God, Have patience and indulgence toward the people... Reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, Dismiss what insults your very soul, And your flesh shall become a great poem.

it is well to heed the old adage—" listen to both sides of the story." Among the many reasons for this, and perhaps most important, is the fact that if everyone is against something (particularly heroin addiction), one can assume that there is something which can be said in its favor.

Above all, Leonardo's relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.

Computer innovators, like other pioneers, can find themselves left behind if they get stuck in their ways.

truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself." Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition. "The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting," he said. Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him

You've got to make a new set of friends and interact with a new set of prejudices every time.

The best way to approach his life is the way he approached the world: filled with a sense of curiosity and an appreciation for its infinite wonders.

Oddest of all, there is this entry: "Go every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men."10 We can imagine Leonardo wanting to do

Uno de los rasgos que distinguen a una gran inteligencia es su disposición a cambiar de parecer, como podemos constatar en el caso de Leonardo.

Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as he did.

people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.

I liked meeting young black Republicans. It meant that some part of the younger generation was thinking. Who cared if they were wrong?

We may exhort ourselves to read tolerantly, we may quote Coleridge on the willing suspension of disbelief until we think ourselves totally suspended in a relativistic universe, and still we will find many books which postulate readers we refuse to become, books that depend on 'beliefs' or 'attitudes'...which we cannot adopt even hypothetically as our own.

Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer…judge less and listen more. Take time to open your mind to the fascinating mystery and uncertainty that we all experience.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.

Even if you're older, wiser, and richer than others and have more influence and power than they do, never assume that you know what's best for anyone.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you know nothing about

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist, there is no 'The way' to do anything.