Quotes About Open-mindedness

Everyone has something to teach you, fascinate you with, and amaze you with. Be committed to truly learning about the people you speak with, and wonder what they truly are like.

we tend to put people into three buckets: people that we are sure we like, people we don't know if we like, and people we don't like.

Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?' 'Lucky?' Denna suggested. 'Tired? Ambidextrous?' 'Ambisextrous,' I corrected.

but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

Think what you want about making babies. Believe in demons. Pray to a goat. So long as it doesn't bruise me, why should I bother myself?

I've always said that you should walk a mile in a man's shoes before you judged him. That way, you have his shoes and a good head start.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

Change your tools, it may free your thinking.

So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, right-minded, dull and smug.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn' t happen in another.

Anger and disappointment could take you just so far, he realized, but without curiosity you were lost.

every time Mike challenged him he would have to think harder about what he believed in himself, and how could you ever learn anything if you only talked to people who thought exactly as you did?

Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?" "Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color." "Cross on the green and not in between.

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.

any Christian theologian who proposes a theology of religions but who doesn't know much about any other religion than her/his own should be regarded as highly suspicious, if not dangerous.

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

It's very hard to teach anything to a young man who knows everything.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Your level of intelligence is not only a measure of what you have learned, but also a measure of how well you can unlearn and re-learn!

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Judging others and being quick to criticize just pollutes your life. Learning how to open your hand is the best thing you can possibly learn.

listening gives you the opportunity to learn.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.