Quotes About Open-mindedness

Don't let self-imposed, unnecessary restrictions limit your thinking. Whenever you encounter a problem, it is worth spending a minute (or more) asking the question: 'Am I imposing rules that I don't need to? Can I change or bend the rules to my advantage?

It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it.

There's no secret, just keep your eyes open. Open all the time, but especially when you think you can't be surprised. That's when you learn to pay attention, to listen to your own voice.

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Perhaps there is always something in our head that is ready to learn.

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know".

Read everything and be kind.

There is no god." I've said that sentence on Glenn Beck's TV show in front of his live audience at his studio in the Texas Bible Belt. I've told Republicans that I like immigrants. I've told Democrats that I dig rich people. I've told sane people that I like lawyers. But

Teenagers want to read - if we let them.

It's not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

For any one group today to think it has the best grasp on the creator of the universe is a form of insanity. Run away—far and quickly—when you see this.

But at least I didn't do any harm. Along the way I came to see more and more that being right about God and making sure everyone else agreed with what I knew might not be the most important thing I could do in God's eyes.

Acceptance of truth is fundamental to our ethos. To determine truth we must first listen to all opinion.

Thinking ish-ly allowed ideas to flow freely.

Kinder haben keine Vorurteile, und die Urteile werden ihnen erst gemacht. Nicht von den Dichtern, sondern von denen, die scheinbar erfolgreich die Gegenwart besetzen.