Quotes About Open-mindedness

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

I want to invite you to look at all your beliefs deeply and see if any are limiting you in any way

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

If a guy doesn't like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I want to show you that you can be funny and hot. You can drink and read. People are still getting used to what I am.

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.

You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.

We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.