Quotes About Open-mindedness

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

do not believe in my truth and I do not believe in your truth. I believe in the truth.

Next time you're about to rule out some guy because he's not your ideal, try to focus on the good things about him, because some guy is going to have to focus on the good things about you, even though he may have wanted someone more easygoing or taller. Every time you start to dissect some guy, note that he's willfully ignoring all of this in order to go out with you.

Therefore we feel it is important that our children be taught this simple tenet: Hate people on an individual basis only—you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

we must be tolerant with ourselves and allow ourselves some deviations from the straight line we set up to follow. Even more we must allow others the same prerogative.

People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less.

And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them

But until I have a better idea, it's smarter to keep reminding myself that I don't know, rather than assuming that I do know, and then translating anything I learn to fit my preconceptions

People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma—and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it.

The last thing the twenty-first century wants to admit is that it might not know everything.

Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

he reminds us of Christ. When he asks, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"9 he reminds us of Christ.

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind.