Quotes About Open-mindedness

The will to love, the desire to help, and an open mind with gratitude can unlock the door to eternal happiness.

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

she had no use for men who were so narrow-minded they could look through a keyhole with both eyes at the same time.

Walk with those who are looking for the truth, run from those who think they have found it.

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

If the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

The world is an infinitely better place when we don't criticize the actions of others, but instead imagine walking in their shoes. Native Americans say: "Walk a mile in my moccasins.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Doors are for people with no imagination" - Skulduggery Pleasant

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

They know enough who know how to learn.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.