Quotes About Open-mindedness

Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things. Such as this, I suppose Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticise themselves more than enough.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

Read every day something no one else is reading.Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

The only certain barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.

The only Barrier to TRUTH is the presumption that you already have it.

Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions.

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.

She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.

There needed to be places like this - places to read and write and study and argue and debate with all different kinds of people and not to have to look over your shoulder all the time. Places where the desire for knowledge overwhelmed boundaries and differences.

Aku akan memuji setiap hal yang baik, tak pandang ia datangnya sebagai seorang Komunis, Islam atau seorang Hopi Indian.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

It is what we think we already know that often prevents us from learning.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.