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Quotes About Open-mindedness

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Belief gets in the way of learning.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.
~ Lecrae
Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.
~ Brian Regan
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
~ Mary McCarthy
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
~ Harry S. Truman
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.
~ Henry Rollins
A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.
~ Richard P. Feynman
We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.
~ Charlene Li
The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.
~ Charlie Munger
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
~ Mark Twain
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
~ Isaac Asimov
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
~ Dallas Willard
Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.
~ Leonard Lauder
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
~ Jack Welch
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.
~ Hans Zinsser
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
~ Saint Augustine
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.
~ Alvin Toffler
I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.
~ Cat Deeley
Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.
~ Kit Williamson
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
~ Tom Peters
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
~ Robert F. Goheen