Quotes About Open-mindedness

would presume nothing. I would take notes.

I would presume nothing. I would take notes.

You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don't, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after.

We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.

It was important to look confident, he realized that very early on. After all, there was a terrible tendency among adults to look at children travelling alone as if they were planning a crime of some sort. None of them ever thought that it might just be a young chap on his way to see the world and have a great adventure. They were so small minded, grown-ups. That was one of their many problems.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with. So SHUT UP, do you hear me? SHUT UP!

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

As people gain more authority, they often develop a lack of patience in listening to those under them. A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing

No matter how much I know (or think I know), I can learn from this situation.

A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Learn to be flexible. Thomas Jefferson once said, "In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.

next time you feel ready to conform to popular thinking on an issue, stop and think.

The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out.

Perhaps the most important problem-solving skill that I have learned and practiced over the years is mental agility.

If you want to break out of your own box, get into somebody's else's. Read broadly.

The future belongs to the curious.

The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

The Buddhists have a phrase for this—"Beginner's Mind"—expressing how experience can be more vivid when it's not dulled by familiarity.

Once you've got -- actually got -- an idea that is whirring around so fast that no other light or contrary evidence can come in, I think it's very dangerous.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.