Quotes About Open-mindedness

I believe in looseness.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

Allein schon der Begriff "Toleranz" setzt voraus, dass man von Zuruckgebliebenen umgeben ist, die man tolerieren muss, als waere man selbst der Traeger einer hoeheren, ueberlegenen Kultur, die sich selbst nie hinterfragt.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

It's hard to be prejudiced against someone you love.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

Only idiots think they know everything I admit that I know nothing just so I am not an idiot

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

Some say: all of the above.

other ways of knowing—indeed, other ways of hearing God address us. These include tradition, science, reason, experience, intuition, community, and relationships. The power of a narrow evangelical biblicism must be broken, but you can't replace something with nothing.

I know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle.

Saying "I don't know" is not a flaw. It is a true and valid statement that does not take the totally illogical leap of "I don't know … therefore a god did it." It communicates the simple and reasonable proposition that we need to learn more.

You can never make any progress in life unless you actually understand that which operates at a higher level than you, so that you can then try to rise to that higher level. Most people just assume that they are already at the highest level, and so they criticize everything at odds with their beliefs, including the very highest content possible, and thus they never learn, never grow, never evolve.

The most significant gift our species brings to the world is our capacity to think. The most significant danger our species brings to the world is our inability to think with those who think differently.

Market share determines who is right and who is wrong. Mind share asks what is possible. This

One thing that distinguishes a boss from a leader is the ability to suspend belief and disbelief so that innovations and new processes will have a chance to emerge.

we must learn how to think collaboratively and innovatively.

GREAT MINDS DON'T THINK ALIKE … BUT THEY CAN LEARN TO THINK TOGETHER!

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

I know very little, but I am curious about a good deal.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

Education should enable a student to think rationally, critically, and ultimately to understand, accept, and adapt with new and old ideas.