Quotes About Open-mindedness

You should never despise people because they haven't had your opportunities.

I try to instill [in my daughters] a higher moral code, one that is far more vulnerable to decency and goodness. I want my girls to find reasons to enjoy all the people in their lives, even if it means they have to tap into every creative well in their soul to do so. I want them to truly, way down deep in their hearts, know that all people... are worthy, viable, and exceptional beings who have much to give and even more to share.

But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

Please release your expectations and open yourself to all possibilities.

He was comfortable in any social situation: garden party or cage fighting contest, it was all the same to Vid, it was all interesting.

Why try to slot fractured families into neat little boxes in this day and age?

We should Google it. Don't sneer at me.

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Americans could surprise you with the things they knew.

Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions. It was exhilarating and infuriating

We're always, in everything we do in this world, she said, limited by subjectivity. But our perspective can have an enormous wingspan, if we give it the freedom to unfurl.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

Those who think differently from us sometimes possess truths we have not yet discovered.

People with intellectual humility (and they are rare) understand that there is far more that they will never know than they will ever know. They continually seek to learn more, to develop their intellectual abilities and expand their knowledge base, always with a healthy awareness of the limits of their knowledge.

The pluralist understands that truth is various and the pragmatist that it is tentative. The pragmatist gains knowledge not by explaining the universe with a single belief system but by seeking exceptions to one's beliefs and keeping an open mind. As in science, experience expands knowledge without ever revealing truth in its entirety.

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats – including sombreros.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.