Quotes About Open-mindedness

One should not make more assumptions than are absolutely necessary.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

In mathematics, it's unwise to abandon an interesting idea just because it's wrong.

some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.

One of the deans of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA had a sign on his door that read something like: "Warning: I might incorporate you to implement your own ideas." The sign itself, I was told, made several creative faculty members turn away with their suggestions while still at the door.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

La mayoría de las personas, más allá de sus opiniones y protestas, no quieren aprender.

Por qué la gente siempre pregunta si los libros son buenos, sin preguntarse si están en condiciones de beneficiarse de ellos?

Judge not the Sufi to be that which you can see of him, my friend. How long, like a child, will you prefer only nuts and raisins?

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Semmelweis reflex: The tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms

Don't be confined by the self you have experienced, the self you know. Going beyond what you know and what you have experienced, challenge your brain with new questions and give it new tasks—then it will begin to manifest infinite creativity.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

should we just ignore all of the tidy boxes?

I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.

Accepting and understanding difference is the key to progression.

He who can relate to all is he who will go further than any other.

The day you close your mind to learning is the day you die.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we know all there is to know. The truth is; we know nothing and we shall continue to know nothing until the end of our existence.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we know all there is to know. The truth is; we know nothing.