Quotes About Open-mindedness

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.

Always be listening and learning.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Little people are rad.

I think I fit into any type of system because I don't really have a certain position. Sometimes people try and label me, but I don't look at myself as being locked into one position.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

I don't need you to love me. I don't want you to hate me, but just don't judge a book by its cover.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

Who someone loves should never be an issue at work or anyplace else.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

Anything that we all can do to get a little bit better or think a little bit differently or use the lens of someone else in another industry to help in your own management, I think, is really important.

I don't marry myself to one belief system.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories.

Like I've said, prejudice means pre-judging. Making assumptions without taking the time to learn. Ignorance is the cause and ignorance can be overcome with knowledge.

The writer of a personal essay does not begin with an idea and then struggle to prove her point; she investigates, keeps an open mind, goes wherever the thought may lead, and, in fact, may end the essay having still not reached a final conclusion.

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if you leave yourself at home and are eager to let the world remake you as it sees fit, you can be at home almost everywhere you go. Home is the condition, the state of unencumbered ease, you export to everyone you visit. —

When a new way of doing things is vastly superior to another, then the merits of change outweigh the difficulty of change. Just because something is different does not mean it is bad. If we only kept to the old, we could never improve.

I'm worried about any group that assumes its own superiority, in any way, to other people.

There's a difference between seeking the truth and being willfully ignorant,

If a man is straight, there is no reason for him to feel threatened by a gay man.