Quotes About Open-mindedness

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

It's easier to gossip than to think, easier to rant than to reason, easier to be confirmed in our prejudices than to listen to another person's point of view. And

I have no right to argue with you because I haven't walked in your shoes, nor do I have your feet.

I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. (ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST, 1871–1922)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST

Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence

There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.

Everyone's belief is everyone else's concern.24 Those who talk of "tolerating all opinions" are very provincial bigots who are only familiar with one opinion.

There are, he claims, two kinds of people in the world: those who are dogmatic and know it, and those who are dogmatic and don't know it.

What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.

idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer

We must give ourselves a good hard mental swat every time we feel inclined to mock, sneer, or roll our eyes at those whose beliefs differ from our own. You

For us to close our mind to scientific reasoning without using our best critical thinking is to refuse to use our God-given capacity for understanding.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we may not agree. This is a prerequisite for a functional democracy. But tolerance alone is not sufficient; it allows us to accept others without engaging with them, to feel smug and self-satisfied without challenging the boundaries within which too many of us live.

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by 'one-handed' economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.