Quotes About Open-mindedness

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!

You should listen to these people, Farrokh," his father was telling him. "It isn't necessary for them to be your moral equals in order for you to learn something from them.

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic. We

the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."21

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying." A brilliant scientist, later president of the Royal Society, he advised investigators, "Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." He also believed that learning had purpose, stating, "The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

At Stanford, he had experienced an epiphany: "I'm not really actually here to learn French, or whatever, I'm learning how to be able to learn anything, and then I can go forth and have a life. . . . I don't need the class." Learning was an end unto itself.

Don't assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.

The enemy of learning is knowing.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

And she didn't judge nobody. She loved everyone equal- accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same.