Quotes About Open-mindedness

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

As my boys got into their later teens, I found that upon occasion they did have fresh ideas that were better than my "old fashioned" way of doing things.

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." – Dr. Carl Jung

OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats." Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. —ISAAC ASIMOV, THE RELATIVITY OF WRONG, 1989

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radical new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts. --from the book For Reasons Unknown

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Say 'Not Yet.' It's best to leave your options open.

Intentamos demostrar que estamos equivocados tan rápidamente como sea posible, porque solo de esta manera podemos encontrar el progreso.

That's pretty much why I'm a UU, Curtis. Because our ministers can be gay, trans, Buddhist, atheist, any race, or same-sex adoptive parents with mixed-race families. You name it. That's the future. Everybody's in." "Here's to the future," said Adrian. We all lifted our water glasses in a toast.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Tener la mente abierta como una persona de mente abierta siempre ve todo lo posible y el que ve todo lo posible es capaz de hacer cualquier cosa posible. A fin de mantener una mente abierta y Mickeymize su vida. compartir esto para tener un mundo de infinitas posibilidades.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

The sacred books of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Veda are the best repositories of the ideas that mattered most to our ancestors, and to ignore them is an act of childish conceit. But it is equally naive to believe that whatever was written down in the past contains an absolute truth that lasts forever.

Now, people don't like this explanation. They say, "What? You think of junk?" I say, "Yup. You must." You cannot a priori think only of good ideas.

That's the problem with our perspective; we always assume we're right based on the information we have.

If you don't conform to other people's ideas of what is right, correct, and proper, then don't worry. It is your right to look at things differently. Guilt should not enter the picture. There is already enough guilt, blame, and self-condemnation in the Universe to go around.

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

NIH syndrome is characterized by a decision to discard all of what the other developer accomplished with the intent of demonstrating a superior solution. Such an act of sheer egotism demonstrates little interest in preserving the best of another's work and using it as a springboard to newer heights.

Never go into user research to prove a point, and never create goals that seek to justify a position or reinforce a perspective. The process should aim to uncover what people really want and how they really are, not whether an opinion (whether yours or a stakeholder's) is correct

A few years later, my wife and I were visiting Iran. Why? Because our idea of a vacation is most people's idea of a hostage situation. If refugees want to get out of a place, we want to go there.