Quotes About Open-mindedness

Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.

Most Americans are very cool people.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.

I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function," F. Scott Fitzgerald

Be careful about making assumptions of expertise, ask experts if you can find them, reexamine your assumptions from time to time.

Knowing what we don't know is better than thinking we know what we don't.

the facts change, I change my mind.

It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.

The more that I learn, the more sure I am that I have very much to learn...

Ah, snug lie those that slumber beneath conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever, and cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver in the draft from an open mind. Born nakedly to shiver in the draft of an open mind.

Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.

I am one of those who are very willing to be refuted if I say anything which is not true, and very willing to refute anyone else who says what is not true, and quite as ready to be refuted as to refute; for I hold that this is the greater gain of the two, just as the gain is greater of being cured of a very great evil than of curing another.

I shouldn't like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act—that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

but I would contend at all costs in both word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not [c] know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know, whether they may not be good rather than things that [c]{34} I know to be bad.

They so wanted it to be simple, believers. "It is what is!" they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other truths, overlooking their own outrageous presumption. "It says what it says," spoken with a conviction that was itself insincerity. They ridiculed questions, for fear it would make their ignorance plain. Then they dared call themselves "open.

Zealous men often confuse purity with intolerance, particularly when they're young.