Quotes About Open-mindedness

I was fortunate enough to be raised by parents who were very accepting. They were never afraid to let me do my thing and let me live my life.

My biggest strength in life is that I'm good at learning and I'm really good at admitting when I'm wrong and recalibrating my perspective.

Stay adventurous with that musical taste.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.

I would say for our straight allies, your job is to listen and not judge. Then, listen and not act.

Anything can be interesting as long as you access it from the right angle.

I believe that if you want to exist on TV, you should be open to doing anything and everything.

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

But what is the imagination for if not tto grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think?

to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we have a) made up our minds about what we think, b) closed our minds to what others think, and c) chosen to go on hearing nothing with which we happen to disagree.

the world becomes a better place – an easier place to navigate if we admit that even though there are opinions, they may be wrong.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

To listen to someone means devoting time to the process, putting your own concerns on hold, remaining silent even when you're dying to say something. Patient listening also involves a willingness to postpone judgement about what is being said. Mostly, we want to rush in to agree, to disagree, to object, to correct; but listening demands the patience to let all that wait until the other person has finished saying to us what they want to say to us.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

A profunda ignorância é o que inspira o tom dogmático". La Bruyère