Quotes About Open-mindedness

Rabbi Heshel said: "A man should be like a vessel that willingly receives what its owner pours into it, whether it be wine or vinegar.

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.

No one learns only by staring in the mirror. We all learn—and are sometimes transformed—by encountering differences that challenge our own experience and assumptions.

Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

The ongoing paradigm shift reminds us that what we think we know is always subject to revision, and that true progress requires a willingness to challenge and evolve our beliefs.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson

Love sees no color

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see

If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned.

He sincerely believed that the closest one could come to objective truth was reading and listening and trying to understand as many viewpoints as possible.

I was gradually learning as a teacher why teachers' colleges were wrong to spend so much time on planning. The most important thing to learn was to be able to throw the plan away, whatever it was. What was necessary was to listen, to follow each minute to its peak, learning as you went.

It was his nature to believe anything, before he would believe he could be wrong.

Either we shall find what we are seeking, or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. "I have been hearing this expression—'we need to think outside the box'—for the past 3 days," she said, reiterating the cliche. "It seems a little strange to me," the woman continued with bemusement. "In my community we don't thinking boxes.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.