Quotes About Open-mindedness

My best friends - the people I trust the most - are Catholic, Jewish, African-American, gay, tall, short, blonde... you name it. I love people for their hearts, not their appearance or lifestyle.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

Sometimes it takes travelling the world to realize that it isn't ok to be different, it's freaking awesome!

If the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. —Madeleine L'Engle

No idea is too strange or ridiculous. An unworkable idea may inspire in someone else an idea that will work.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John F. Kennedy, y repito sus palabras en este momento. Escribo esencialmente para los jóvenes de espíritu, para los enérgicos, para los optimistas; para aquellos que convengan conmigo en reconocer que podemos y debemos modernizar (actualmente me gusta decir "mejorar") nuestro sistema jurídico y nuestro sistema de justicia.

Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.

The next time you are trying to be creative in a meeting, gently lean forward and pull against the table. When the going gets tough, cross your arms to help perseverance in the face of failure. If that doesn't work, lie down. If anyone accuses you of being lazy, quietly explain that you are employing your locus coeruleus in the war against rigid thinking.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

innovators and experimenters who are comfortable with ambiguity and prepared to learn.

I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn.

But it isn't a choice, because Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life." If you come across truth in any form, it isn't outside your faith as a Christian. Your faith just got bigger. To be a Christian is to claim truth wherever you find it.

When in doubt, assume that they're seeing something that you aren't.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god either. So when we hear that a certain person has "rejected Christ," we should first ask, "Which Christ?

You start with your 1, and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. No one does.

when people object to the idea of God, to the idea that there is more beyond our tangible, provable-with-hard-evidence observations and experiences of the world, they aren't taking the entire world into account.

The measure of a sermon is not whether it affirms what you already believe. A sermon is not a product to be consumed and then evaluated according to how good it was or whether it was pleasing or enjoyable.

The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong

Specialization is for insects

He repeated his plea that they be fair and open-minded, open to reason and compromise, and praised them for being so reasonable and open-minded thus far—which of course made it harder for them to act otherwise

Belief gets in the way of learning.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.