Quotes About Open-mindedness

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them…and if they don't work…why then we'll just try something else.

Cultivate friends you disagree with, as well as those with whom you agree, because together you'll locate the soft spots in your own thinking and find common ground to build on.

People who are aware that they are making contestable assumptions are much more likely to recognize that reasonable people of goodwill can, in fact, disagree—even about matters of profound human and moral significance.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth. Too many people think with their mouth instead of listening in order to absorb new ideas and possibilities. They argue instead of asking questions. I

If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.

This quote from futurist Alvin Toffler mirrors what rich dad told me two decades ago: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

they close their minds to another powerful investment vehicle

If those stories do not expand their realities, I doubt if anything will.

he was asking him to stretch his reality and see another reality.

Another side note: In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

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If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer despite tough changes.

They do not challenge their assumptions

Kim was the first woman I met who was willing to entertain such a crazy thought.

Intelligent people can be ignorant if they combine their smarts with arrogance. A truly intelligent person, on the other hand, welcomes new ideas.

Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all.

You can't reason with prejudice.

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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. I never learned anything while I was talking.

I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children—people dumber than you learn about them.

He might become ultra conservative, rejecting the impossible even after it had become fact

make this all work." "My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They

I don't care if you're a bloody Hindu.