Quotes About Open-mindedness

folks generally fear what's different and unknown to them.

It's natural that you feel as you do, Reynie. There is much more to the world than most children—indeed, most adults—ever see or know. And where most people see mirrors, you, my friend, see windows. By which I mean there is always something beyond the glass.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.

She thought about that for a moment. He liked the way she stopped and thought carefully about the things he said. Most dragons already had their ideas settled in their heads; if they paused to think before responding, it was only about how to explain to you that you were wrong. But Cricket seemed to take in information and questions and hold them up against the things she thought she knew, to see if there was anything new she missed.

For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even...' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

The principle of scientific inquiry should not be limited to merely the practical or the possible, explained Sighter. Only by investigating the unlikely and the unthought-of is the sum total of knowledge advanced.

Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to this liking.

These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant--even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.

the tendency to believe something despite there being either evidence to the contrary, or no evidence at all.

Let yourself be second-guessed. When you make any tool, people use it in ways you didn't intend, and this is especially true of a highly articulated tool like a programming language.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Aha! Ora dimmi: pensi di avere una mentalità aperta? A. Si, ragionevolmente aperta. B. E avere una mentalità aperta significa essere pronti ad esaminare i meriti e i demeriti di ogni idea, indipendentemente da quanto possa apparire strana a prima vista, vero?

Closing a student's mind should be a criminal offense. If you let your ego get in the way of your teaching, you may become flustered or angry and lose sight of your goal to enlighten or give back.

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

We tolerate difference only when we don't have to look at it or listen to it, as long as it doesn't impact our lives.

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

Just curiosity," I said. When he made a disapproving squint, I added, "Don't you go over now and then?" "Never been there," he said. "It's ten feet away!" "I'm staying here," he said, his squint now suggesting that I should be doing the same.

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. - James T. Kirk, Balance of Terror

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.