Quotes About Open-mindedness

Begin to see yourself as a person who notices instead of judges.

never assume that you know what's best for anyone.

In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

Being spontaneous means eliminating your prejudgments and allowing yourself to meet and deal with new people and ideas. The prejudgments themselves are a safety valve for avoiding murky or puzzling provinces and preventing growth. If you don't trust anyone you can't get a "handle on"; it really means you don't trust yourself on unfamiliar grounds.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little?

In all of your relationships, if you can love someone enough to allow them to be exactly what they choose to be—without any expectations or attachments from you—you'll know true peace in your lifetime. True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be. This is an open mind—and an absence of attachment.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

As you read the next two sections, please keep an open mind, even if what you read conflicts with what you've believed all your life!

When you refrain from engaging in judgments based solely on looks, you paradoxically become an instrument for change.

Don't judge yourself or others.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little? A heart starts beating inside a mother's womb a few weeks after conception, and it's a total mystery to everyone on our planet. In comparison to what there is to know, we are only embryos. Keep this in mind whenever you encounter those who are absolutely certain that there's only one way to do something. Resist being a pessimist.

Instead of believing that you know what's best for others, trust that they know what's best for themselves.

Don't sum up person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

Dont't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new.

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

At the same time remember that one can dislike another man's doctrines without disliking the man. If a reply seems rather hard on your pet beliefs, do not regard it as being hard upon you. It is not meant to be. Not one word is intended to hurt anybody personally.

To demand to know is the obligation of every American. That it occasionally leads people down blind alleys, or off to Atlantis, is to be celebrated, not scorned.

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

To appreciate a new and difficult style, as I have said, takes an act of will, a decision to experience it again.

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

How such views might steer clear of authoritarian dogmatism, head-in-the-sand private intuition, narrow professional specialization, or extravagantly broad but undependable

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.