Quotes About Open-mindedness

The narrower your mind, the narrower your life will be.

To filter out those with greater wisdom, look for those whom do not adhere to just one idea.

We only talk of what we know, so as to know of little is to talk of little.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber

St. Thomas Aquinas, she knew, was reputed to say that he feared the man who had just one book, and she understood what he meant about the narrowness of outlook that could give. However, she thought, perhaps a man with one well-loved book might be a more rounded individual than the man who possessed hundreds and never opened any of them.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Not every shift in understanding is good, since we make good and bad decisions, but we can never learn without being open to change in our thinking.

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

My own belief is that two adults are allowed to love who they want, and if you don't agree with that, you are a narrow-minded shitfuck and we can't be friends.

Hey, I try and have an open container with me no matter what state I'm in." She

ethnocentrism is a fundamental fact of the human condition.

Work ethic (chapter 1) Resilience (chapter 2) Originality (chapter 3) Childlike imagination (chapter 4) Insatiable curiosity (chapter 5) Passion (chapter 6) Creative maladjustment (chapter 7) Rebelliousness (chapter 8) Cross-border thinking (chapter 9) Contrarian action (chapter 10) Preparation (chapter 11) Obsession (chapter 12) Relaxation (chapter 13) Concentration (chapter 14)

I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself" -Salma

Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life—relaxed, open-minded, and emotionally energized—are essential.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he's 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal.

You will find what you want to find.

Mrs. Parsons says, 'I know exactly what you mean but I envy you all the same. I envy you going to new places every few years – meeting new people and making new friends. It is such an interesting thing to study people, to get inside their skins and see life from their point of view. And you can do it. Some people travel all over the world and see nothing. They go about clad in a thick fog of their own making through which no impressions can penetrate

I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.