Quotes About Open-mindedness

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.

You will learn no more once you have decided you know

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.