Quotes About Open-mindedness

Before you assume, learn the facts. Before you judge, understand why. Before you hurt someone, feel. Before you hate, love. Before you leave, commit to staying...

Each one of us is unique in our own way, and that is what makes life so fantastic. What is right for me may be wrong for you. All we can do is to let go of judgment and accept one another for who we are.

Being crazy doesn't annoy others that understand it, it annoys only the ones unwilling to try and understand.

Most people find it difficult to believe that others choose a way of life that is unlike their own. They prefer to think that it must be forced upon them through necessity or that they harbour a desire to be 'different', otherwise it might be seen as a criticism of their own decisions.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

In Athol Fugard's play, The Island, an African eats an orange whole; at the play's opening night in London, the audience sat coolly through the nude scenes on stage, but there were gasps of horror at the sight of a man enjoying a whole unpeeled orange.

When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. All of us – Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, even the godless – will always be seen by others through their personal spectacles of perception.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to things already on the decline, without recognising in the humble simplicity of new ideas the germ which shall develop in the future.

It is remarkable what children will accept as normal, especially when their experiences have been sufficiently broad.

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?" Shannon L. Alder

A — Aware. Am I in Judger?

Someday, I will stop being surprised at all the things librarians read; they'll read anything.)

Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.