Quotes About Open-mindedness

I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

What's brilliant is having the opportunity to come to a piece of work with no preconceptions.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice.

I have no prejudice against male or female.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

By being politically correct, you're closing your mind to a different point of view. Which sounds a lot like prejudice. Which is definitely not politically correct. See what I just did there?

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world of various points of view.