Quotes About Open-mindedness

We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God' (Sermon 19).

I want to step outside my circle and look at the other options. I don't want to do what other people think I'll end up doing.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Sometimes, you just gotta try it out before you judge it.

The superior man will not manifest either narrow-mindedness or the want of self-respect.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

Quem viveu pregado a um só chão não sabe sonhar outros lugares.

And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer. To me, the conclusion is inescapable: the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

I don't know why people aren't more curious, and why curiosity isn't considered a more important leadership trait. A journalist once asked me if I was ever bored as a kid. I only had to think about it for a second: I never was, not even for a minute, because I was so curious. Every day I'd wake up excited by all the new things there were to learn about.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

We feel a sense of ownership about opinions we call our own. It often takes incredible courage to give up on an opinion we have held for some time after listening to someone else.

Prejudice is ignorance.

The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

we make the mistake of viewing history through modern eyes. Instead, it must be evaluated with an open mind. We must take into account the fears and superstitions of the times, for they are critical to understanding the people and their motivations.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.