Quotes About Open-mindedness

Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins

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

Sometimes we must look outside our own backyards to realize how big the world is and how blessed we are.

Be open minded don't be afraid to share your thoughts it's not always what you say that is important it's what you think about and may never say that could be.

Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

Definition is the death of discovery.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

Some people would rather die than think.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.