Quotes About Open-mindedness

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

Die gefährlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die Weltanschauung der Leute, welche die Welt nicht angeschaut haben.

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...

That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. GOETHE

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

No one should let himself fall slave to his own opinion.

As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

I definitely don't generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way.

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

I haven't been afraid of John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Bill Evans or Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock. Why would I be afraid of the Beatles?

I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or Lil Wayne. It's just that I'm a big fan of music. I'm a student of music. And I just want to learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.