Quotes About Open-mindedness

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

Open your mind before your mouth

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

I'd always find the positive in someone.

People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

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 new views.

Students should be told, how to think, not what to think.

A difference of opinion does two things if you allow it, expands the mind and widens the heart.