Quotes About Open-mindedness

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.

One of the many things Mike could never understand in Psmith was his fondness for getting into atmospheres that were not his own. He would go out of his way to do this. Mike, like most boys of his age, was never really happy and at his ease except in the presence of those of his own years and class. Psmith, on the contrary, seemed to be bored by them, and infinitely preferred talking to somebody who lived in quite another world.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything.

And believing in choice meant you supported it whether someone's choice conformed to your personal beliefs or not.

A master bestows the divine experience of cosmic consciousness when his disciple, by meditation, has strengthened his mind to a degree where the vast vistas would not overwhelm him. Mere intellectual willingness or open-mindedness is not enough. Only adequate enlargement of consciousness by yoga practice and devotional bhakti can prepare one to absorb the liberating shock of omnipresence.

The science of today is a light matter….Those amazing truths that our descendants will discover are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak; and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them — for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it into the framework of the commonplaces of accepted knowledge, and are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further.

The truths—those surprising, amazing, unforeseen truths—which our descendants will discover, are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak, and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them; for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it into the framework of the commonplaces of acquired knowledge, and we are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further.

True sophistication is the ability to fit in anywhere, because you have a broad understanding of and respect for all kinds of people.

It should not be a crime to discuss any idea, however outrageous

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

Over the years he began displaying that rarest of intellectual gifts—the ability and willingness to change his mind and do it in an orderly, well-reasoned way.

Creativity is not so much an ability as a state of awareness.

Live and let live is Frances's motto. "Life is short," she likes to say. "You only get one, and if you waste it worrying about what other people think

They have been so much concerned with what they are going to say next that they do not keep their ears open. … Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.

cuando algo nos desagrada, es mucho más fácil criticar y censurar que tratar de comprender el punto de vista del prójimo. Con frecuencia es más fácil encontrar defectos

it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Always default to diplomacy. Admit that you may be wrong.

PRINCIPLE 8 Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.

get the other person's point of view and see things from his or her angle, as well as from our own.

One of his favourite quotations was 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Bien, escuche. Yo pienso de otro modo, pero quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia... Y si me equivoco, quiero corregir mi error.

Trate honradamente de ver las cosas desde el punto de vista de la otra persona.