Quotes About Open-mindedness

If I accepted one supernatural occurrence, I should certainly accept others; it was only logical.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Era este hombre muy estirado y relamido, y la gente estirada y relamida suele vivir habitualmente en un mundo tan reducido que cualquier cosa violenta e inusitada les puede sacar brusca y completamente de él; por ello, esta clase de gente suele desconfiar instintivamente de todo lo que represente una cierta originalidad.

where would we be without our ability to see beyond what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing--they begin to believe in anything.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Todas las religiones pretenden estar en la exclusiva posesión de la verdad; "preconizar la fe ciega sobre un punto de creencia, es confesar su impotencia en demostrar que se tiene razón".

She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God. Nevertheless, she kept an open mind. She was not a melancholy agnostic, but the optimistic kind. She liked to give God the benefit of the doubt.

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Mereka yang disebut buta huruf (illiterate) di abad ke-21 bukanlah orang-orang yang tidak bisa membaca dan menulis, namun mereka yang tidak bisa belajar (learn), menanggalkan pelajaran sebelumnya (un-learn), dan belajar kembali (re-learn).

Ta luôn nghe th?y nh?ng Ä'i?u ta không mu?n nghe, nhÆ°ng ta l?i không nghe ???c nh?ng Ä'i?u mà ta c?n nghe.

D'ailleurs, moi je trouve qu'il ne faut jamais juger car qui sommes-nous pour juger

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

If you wear your hair straight or natural, it's all fine with me. It doesn't mean that you aren't politically conscious or that you don't have good thoughts about progress.

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.