Quotes About Open-mindedness

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

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

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

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La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à ce qui est. C'est une attitude dynamique, qui consiste à prévoir, à comprendre et à promouvoir ce qui veut être.

You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with "yes, and" rather than "yes, but." You and your friend decided that "yes, and" attested to a life with no turn-off, no alternative routes:

In short, there are always uncertainties. Nothing is preordained and nothing can be ruled out. Things always go wrong. There will be unexpected events and operational setbacks.53 Being prepared is key. You need contingency plans. You have to diversify and maximize your positions, and keep all options open. You must not do anything irrevocable—make a decision or take actions that put yourself in a position you cannot get out of later.

I know you read very widely. Almost like cultural foraging.

People of the world will never know everything about you. What is more important is for you to take some time to know everything around you... and learn from them.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

People who believe in The Truth often read one book or a group of books all their lives. For them the last word has been uttered by, say, Thomas Aquinas or Adolf Hitler or Friedrich Nietzsche. Hence they stick to their particular Bible and wear it to shreds. Such readers are almost always psychopaths. A one-book man is a dangerous man and should be taken in hand and taught how to diversify his literary investments.

In olden days, a glimpse of stockingWas looked on as something shocking,But now, God knows,Anything goes.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

What is not yet known those blinded by faith can never learn.

There's a way to break out of this bind: Don't act as though your limited experience represents universal truths. It doesn't. Force yourself to go outside your own experience by vigorously testing your assumptions.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they do not read.

At school, your tests only have one right answer and you might get zero or half points if you put the wrong answer. But in what we call ''the real world'', things aren't so black and white, so you should think about things for yourself and express them in words or pictures. This is how you comminicate with people, with other people.

Emulating the persistence and care of Darwin, we must collect facts with open-minded watchulness, unbiased by crotchets or notions; fact on fact, instance on instance, experiment upon experiment; facts which neatly fit the idea of their relationship, may establish a general principle." Sir William Osler, Counsels and Ideals

Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious.

Don't just yell France! There are a lot of other countries.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

When Alice says she cannot believe in impossible things, the Queen replies: 'I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.