Quotes About Open-mindedness

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

We cannot pick a lifestyle and tell two generations after us to live like that. It is impossible.

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

It's important to be frank with people: I think that any kind of fruit on pizza is an abomination. I have never been able to understand that. It's not a deal-breaker for me in terms of friendships, but does raise questions for me.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

I am ready to work in any industry whether its Bollywood, Hollywood, the digital platforms, South Indian film, or Bengali films. Wherever I get a good opportunity, I'll be there.

I'm not going to put them all in a box and say they all cheat. There are some good guys and I have met some good guys that play basketball.

I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion.

Please be kind, don't be judgemental.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

I feel like there is plenty of room for fresh ideas, always.

I am a heterosexual who is completely cool with folks who aren't, and I hail from Plum Borough, Pa.

We have to nurture and support the idea of pluralism.

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.