Quotes About Open-mindedness

People call me a Modi bhakt now. I used to be a Marx bhakt. I was part of what I now call the intellectual mafia. I used to believe in it, and worked for it. My eyes opened up when I began to travel, and meet different kinds of people.

I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.

I can't open doors that aren't open. But if a door opens, I would be happy to walk through.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I keep my opinions to myself. I've always said that everyone is free to think what you like.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.

One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

it is 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.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

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

If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks! -Ann Atwater