Quotes About Open-mindedness

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves continuously, and refuses to accept anything without thinking.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

Someone else doesnt have to be wrong for you to be right. There are many roads to whats right. And most of the time it just doesnt matter that much.

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

Don't push yourself to be right in everything. Because sometimes, being wrong makes you a better person.

Being open-minded means being humble, accepting that you can go wrong sometime, somewhere.

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Young people need to stop being soo simple minded & try new things .

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

It is easy to see the faults in others, only the broad-minded see it in themselves.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

In the run towards being a better human being, we must recognize that other people's value systems are no less important than our own.

If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it.