Quotes About Open-mindedness

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.

I have never met anybody who can change their point of view as easily as me. It's profoundly embarrassing.

You need to have a liberal point of view for a society to grow.

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

Being imaginative and playful doesn't make you any less of an adult," Gabriel said gently. "It only makes you a more interesting one.

I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones

although she was disposed to follow the rules whenever possible, she was also willing to discard them when necessary.

There's nothing wrong about not knowing something. The stupid people are the ones who think they know everything.

I had asked Todd once if he was gay, and he had said he didn't care if someone was a man or a woman, he was more interested in the person's inside. "So are you bisexual?" I had asked, and he had laughed at my insistence on a label. "I guess I'm bipossible," he had said, and pressed a warm, careless kiss on my lips.

is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. That's all, folks. Be safe out there.

We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting.

It's not so easy to dismiss people you disagree with when you sense God working in their lives too. Later,

Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

development. Anyone can learn to work with tarot and can benefit greatly from its insights; all you need is an open mind and a willingness

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Hunting after arguments to make good one side of a question, and wholly to neglect and refuse those which favor the other side ... [is] willfully to misguide the understanding; and is so far from giving truth its due value, it wholly debases it.