Quotes About Open-mindedness

we almost always make the implicit assumption that everybody else thinks and ex-periences about the same way as we do, with the exception of "crazy" people.

you have to understand in order to disagree.

No mind was so good that it did not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and blindness and bigotry and folly.

When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

Lack of courage keeps us from understanding others' perspectives.

just because I'm a little weird doesn't mean I'm wrong.

think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain.

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many

I think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.

Actually the choice is simple. When your child decides to love a new person, you can either see it as a chance to hate some people - the person they choose and their families. However, you can also see it as a chance to love some more people. And since when did loving more become a bad thing?

I feel everyone who has a chance should step out of India for a while to really see what it is like out there.

Actually, the choice is simple. When your child decides to love a new person, you can either see it as a chance to hate some people – the person they choose and their families. Which is what we did for a while. However, you can also see it as a chance to love some more people. And since when did loving more people become a bad thing?

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Judging someone without knowing their life experience, without knowing their pain, by their physical appearance, by their social status, from your own belief system, from other people's gossip, is a very shallow view, and a very shallow opinion.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

in most of us, by the age of 30, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (William James)...we are not forced to accept the hardening of our field of knowledge, a kind of psychosclerosis. There is no disgrace in not knowing everything. The problem is being unwilling to reach beyond what one knows to a broader, fuller reality.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

How wonderful, to have lived in so many places.' He found her enthusiasm infectious. 'It was. It is. The attitudes. The ideas. No one's . . . stuck.