Quotes About Open-mindedness

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.

To be firm without a complementary flexibility is to be a corpse. Conservative self-confidence without a liberal broad-mindedness becomes chauvinism, pedantry.

losing a debate isn't a sign of stupidity or weakness, but a sign of growth if you're willing to embrace it with humility. I

Clearing the mind and being flexible are key.

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't." "Great

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.

You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand.

Your problem is you don't believe in anything, Lou. And your problem is you believe in everything

People who read are a lot more tolerant than people who don't.

Alan Turing appears to be becoming a symbol of the shift towards computing, not least because of his attitude of open-minded defiance of convention and conventional thinking. Not only did he conceptualise the modern computer – imagining a simple machine that could use different programmes – but he put his thinking into practice in the great code breaking struggle with the Nazis in World War II, and followed it up with pioneering early work in the mathematics of biology and chaos.

All I ask is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ponder with open minds. We've made so many mistakes, humanity, during just one lifetime. Many of them perpetrated not by evildoers, drenched in malice, but by men and women filled with fine motives! Like you.

It takes great wisdom, maturity, and force of will to overcome ingrained human egotism and say -- "Hey, I can fool myself! I might even be wrong, from time to time." 

mongrels . . . people who've bred back and forth with just about everybody and seem to enjoy it. You know . . . like Californians.

Growing up among cultural differences is already, or soon will be, the rule rather than the exception—even for those who never physically leave their home country.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

There are things we know for certain. Oh? Name one. The sun's going to come up tomorrow morning. Why? It always has. Does that really mean that it always will? A faint look of consternation crossed her face. It will , won't it? Probably, but we can't be absolutely certain. Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything, Pol. That's what education's all about.

I realized then that if I could teach my children only one or two basic principles, tolerance would be one of them.

That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That

A judge's disposition should be about evenly balanced between sail and anchor. He cannot be anchored to the past mechanically, but he ought not be moved by every puff of novel doctrine.

There is something I want you to see. Something related to what I was saying about the propensity of human beings to prejudge others and then cling to that prejudice no matter how wrongheaded it may be."     The

the more opinions you have, the less you see