Quotes About Open-mindedness

I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?

I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Until you can give up being a judge of yourself and others, you cannot begin a search into compassion.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato

There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.

The distinctive feature of the unintelligent man is the hastiness and absoluteness of his opinions; the scientist is slow to believe, and never speaks without modification.

One must pay a penalty for having a prejudice against obscurity.

in calling other human beings "savage" or "barbarous" we may be expressing no objective fact, but only our fierce fondness for ourselves, and our timid shyness in the presence of alien ways.

And indeed, great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

Philosophy begins when one doubts one's own beliefs, dogmas, and axioms

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

A reverent agnosticism can be on occasion a better evangelism than a religion which knows all the answers.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.