Quotes About Open-mindedness

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

People always judge others by taking as a model their own limitations, and other people's opinions are often full of prejudice and fear. Join with all those who experiment, take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected for doing so, and who prefer certainties to doubts.

We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.

Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

I'm not saying: Seek out people who think the same as you. I'm saying: Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.

Para tener fe en nuestro camino, no es preciso demostrar que el camino del otro es equivocado.

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

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will be changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

Nunca podemos juzgar la vida de los demás, porque cada uno sabe de su propio dolor y de su propia renuncia. Una cosa es suponer que uno está en el camino cierto; otra es suponer que ese camino es el único.

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.

As the Zen master Suzuki Roshi put it, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

Dzigar Kongtrül has a sign on the front door of his retreat cabin that reads, "Don't believe everything you think." That's the basic idea here.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.