Quotes About Open-mindedness

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

I don't like to take people lightly even if the odds are against them.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me.

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

I've been adapting ever since my oldest had her first play date with a boy, and I was like, 'That's not normal,' because I came from the old school. Now boys sleep over at my house. It doesn't matter which girl, which age.

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

I've gone from a place where I was told there was one way and only one way, to being more in a place where I don't think anyone has the right to say what they believe is more important or more significant.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.