Quotes About Open-mindedness

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Youth is not measured by the age of a person, but by the curiosity a person keeps.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

In life, if you don't diversify the people you love, the things you have and the places you go than you have no life at all!

Today it's nice to be able to entertain odd thoughts without having to marry them all. Thank God. I can think whatever the hell I want. Entertaining odd thoughts won't make you crazy. Refusing to entertain odd thoughts won't make you well.

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

No conseguía comprender por qué ninguna de las personas con las que hablaba mostraba interés por los valores de Los Auténticos. Me di cuenta entonces de que veían una amenaza en comprender lo desconocido, en aceptar lo que parece diferente.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged… —Holy Bible, Matthew 7:1

No matter what someone tells him, he accepts it by reminding himself, "I won't learn less." What that means is when somebody makes a suggestion or gives you ideas, you're either going to learn more or learn nothing. But you're not going to learn less. Hearing people out does not make you dumber. So, thank them for trying to help.

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.

Stop Asking for Feedback and Then Expressing Your Opinion

getting mad at people for being who they are makes as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Don't give up. Defend your ideas, but be flexible. Success seldom comes in exactly the form you imagine.

It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didn't look like the ones on the entertainment feed.

Overconfident humans who don't listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.)