Quotes About Open-mindedness

There are no shortcuts. Not to understanding and not to knowledge. You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone,

A focus on one method above all others is a kind of fetish. These cases suggest that some of the historical examples of "science gone awry" arose from what I designate methodological fetishism. These are situations where investigators privileged a particular method and ignored or discounted evidence obtained by other methods, which, if heeded, could have changed their minds.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

You mustn't judge them so harshly. Everyone has a right to their own beliefs no matter how imbecilic.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected all different opinions.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

intellectual diversity is the form of diversity that seems to be least valued in universities

So compelling is the evidence of our own eyes and ears, so swift is your mind to assemble your own version of the story, that one of the hardest things in this world is to understand there's another way of seeing things.

Japanophiles were people who just loved Japan without asking questions.

The more overtly unshakeable someone's beliefs are, the more diminished they seem to become, because they have stopped questioning, and the not-questioning can sometimes be accompanied by an attitude of moral superiority. The belligerent dogmatism of the current cultural moment is a case in point. A bit of humility wouldn't go astray.

readers rarely accept arguments that challenge their interests. Even if they acknowledge at some level that there may be truth in what you say, they will blank out the unwelcome knowledge.

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

Only the curious have something to find.

The psychological mechanism of the individual "without prejudices" lacks interest.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?