Quotes About Open-mindedness

Finally, to be an open-minded person, you must let go of how you look at things and focus on how they are in themselves.

Only continuous learning can free us from all the madness of this world—From the Flat Earth Theory to those who used to believe that the Earth was the centre of the universe.

Open-minded is the ability to look on both sides without taking side. Fanaticism must be put to death.

Remember, those who are teaching you to remain in one place explored everything around them.

Self-forgiveness, including others, is the first step to being an open-minded individual.

The best way to learn something new is to banish fanaticism in all of its shapes and forms.

The first rule of learning philosophy is to ban the hypothesis of knowing anything. You must go beyond your own opinions.

The major downside of democracy is that even the least critical minds will never think they are wrong.

The only sin in the world is pretending to know everything.

The teacher should not assume that he/she is always correct, or try to make the worst cases appear reasonable before his pupils. On the other hand, the teacher should accept the corrections as much as they love to do it to others.

The wise man must become a friend of the truth, not a fanatic of the concepts that are believed by many to be true only.

There are no rules in the search for experience, everything, good or bad, is left to the observer.

We are afraid of what we do not know. Therefore, the secret of fear is in knowing as much as you can. Leaving all the dogmas behind you!

We are quick to judge and generalise all the peoples by claiming that "I hate politics" or "I hate all the politicians".

We must take into consideration the opinions of others; simply because we all look at the world through different lenses.

I've met people in the last year or two who have stopped going to their local church because people have started singing new songs and dancing in the aisles. And I've met others who have started going for precisely the same reason. It's time to give ourselves a shake--to recognize that different people need different kinds of help at different stages of their lives--and get on with it.

Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who follow this fresh reading of the New Testament want to say to our critics right and left, 'Don't imagine that because we don't check all your fundamentalist boxes, we must be modernists, or that because we don't check all your modernist boxes, we must be fundamentalists.

The purpose of an open mind, [Chesterton] said, is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all the questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation.

It all becomes so complicated, people grumble—when what they really mean is, "I am so used to reading this passage one way that I find it hard to switch and consider other options.

I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.

None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see.

That I have not seen does not mean I cannot appreciate.

A Christian approach to any field needs to be both critical and constructive. We cannot simply borrow from the results of secular scholarship as though that were spiritually neutral territory discovered by people whose minds are completely open and objective- that is, *as though the fall had never happened*.

She always gave herself some time to browse the library shelves to check out new reads she hadn't heard about and wasn't sure she would want to stick with. Like agreeing to only coffee on a first date, rather than an entire meal.