Quotes About Open-mindedness

Ciò che conta è quello che impari quando sai già tutto.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden

When You Start Having All the Right Answers, You Will Stop Asking All the Right Questions. The path to success lies in the realization that there is always more to learn.

If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being "right.

In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren't.

As my father [Jav?harl?l Nehr?] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.