Quotes About Open-mindedness

by trying lots of things you think you might enjoy, you will learn more about yourself, and what you are actually good at, what might be your core competencies, and which of the biggies are worth going for. You may be shocked by what you discover. This is why you just have to keep an open mind and try things.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

You opened a debate. You can't close if just because it is not going your way. -David Petrakis

thought of the classic definition of a Unitarian:

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.