Quotes About Open-mindedness

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

Not everyone is as equally as adventurous as me. I get that.

I want to try to give everybody else a fair shot and know that you don't know what that person went through before you met them that day. We don't know what people are walking out of or dealing with. The hope is that even when people aren't sure about me, maybe I can try to love them and be sure about them.

Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble.

Faith without wisdom and knowledge could produce bigots completely lacking in compassion and tolerance.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Sometimes, it is nearly impossible to look beyond the parameters of the boxes we put ourselves in.

If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

Only ignorants get bored

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

Sex, yes; sexism, no.

Beware of people who dislike cats

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise -- even in their own field.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

The man who wants to make me change my religion surely does so only because he would not change his, even if forced: he thinks it strange, then, that I do not do something he would not do himself perhaps for the whole world." Montesquieu

There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.

All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

It follows that these people [INTJs] cannot be successfully coerced. They will not even be told anything without their permission, but they will accept an offer of facts, opinions, or theories, for free consideration;

I expect readers to read in my books something I didn't know, but I can expect it only from those who expect to read something they didn't know.

It just wasn't possible to make him accept a reality different from his own.

the broadening of cultural perspectives can in turn broaden the range not only of what can be sensed but what can be perceived.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.