Quotes About Open-mindedness

Books allowed her vicarious tastes of infinite variety, but they didn't supplant the need to venture out into the big and the messy. In fact, just the opposite. Books convinced her that something more existed---something intuitive, beyond reason---and they whetted her appetite to find it.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to fall out.

Seneca actually explicitly says in his thirty-third letter to his friend Lucilius: Will I not walk in the footsteps of my predecessors? I will indeed use the ancient road—but if I find another route that is more direct and has fewer ups and downs, I will stake out that one. Those who advanced these doctrines before us are not our masters but our guides. The truth lies open to all; it has not yet been taken over. Much is left also for those yet to come.

Detengámonos durante un momento e intentemos imaginar hasta que punto seria mejor el mundo si todos evitáramos realizar juicios de valor precipitados y contemplásemos los asuntos humanos centrándonos en los hechos, con un poco más de compasión hacia nuestros congéneres humanos.

This willingness to entertain more than one idea as worthy and the respect shown for minority opinions are attitudes that draw me to Jewish thought. Differences in opinion are appreciated and encouraged. Sometimes, they even provide a source of amusement. In modern times, we like to quip, "Two Jews, three opinions.

To paraphrase Ben Zoma: "Who is wise? The one who learns from all traditions." I have learned valuable lessons from other traditions while maintaining my own identity and beliefs. This teaching also calls me to listen to those whose political opinions differ from mine. How wise our world would become if only we would all learn from each other!

Es el fantasma que se cierne sobre este trabajo y puede condicionarlo fatalmente: reclinarse sobre lo ya hecho, sobre lo ya dicho, sobre lo ya visto, reducir el amor por el conocimiento a mera administración de un conocimiento que ya no nos reserva sorpresa alguna. En

las herejías —de cualquier clase, no sólo religiosas—son tan ciertas como las ortodoxias y que, además, nunca intentaron imponerse por la fuerza o vencer por el miedo.

One who cannot dance must not blame the song.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

A mind unconvinced is a mind closed.

Shoeshine looked disappointed. "Don't do that, young fella." "Do what?" "Try and label everyone you meet." The man coughed again. "It's lazy.

Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same." --Reverend Lovejoy

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.

Don't be proud of only liking realism. It is like being proud of not having an imagination.

Ignore idiots with narrow definitions od beauty. They are blind to life's imperfect wonder.

Your brain is open. Never let it be closed.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.