Quotes About Open-mindedness

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Me parece que la duda y la incertidumbre son mucho más importantes que el tener razón.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.

Christ's sympathies are broader and His love is larger than we think.... We hedge him round with our poor creeds, and shut Him up in our little churches, and think He works only in our appointed ways. He breaks over the barriers we put about him, and carries on His work of love in hearts that we think are beyond all reach of Him or us. We cannot tell our brother how to find the light. The light will find him.

The great pleasure of ignorance is, after all, the pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering, is already beginning to stiffen.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

SECRET #14 Sometimes you shouldn't be so sure of what you think you're sure of.

To be a true explorer in science—to follow the unprejudiced lead of pure scientific inquiry—is to be unafraid to propose the unthinkable, and to prove friends, colleagues, and scientific paradigms wrong.

Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

And I said, how about taking a quick trip up there now?...It took them just ten minutes to decide, and by lunch-time...we were off. Some friends are so satisfactory. You may not agree with them in everything or anything, but it doesn't matter. You like each other just as you are. It is the contact and rubbing up against other ideas that is stimulating and rewarding.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.

Humility applied to convictions does not mean believing things any less; it means treating those who hold contrary beliefs with respect and friendship.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within the imprisoning framework of our own limited cultural criteria, we still speak within the cliché of the stereotype." That

My dear boy, Miss Frost said sharply. My dear boy, please don't put a label on me - don't make a category before you get to know me!

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves—to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!