Quotes About Open-mindedness

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.