Quotes About Open-mindedness

My aim in life is not to judge.

You can only get more in life by saying YES.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

Don't judge a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes.

feel free to choose the places that strike our fancy, no matter how obscure or far away.

whatever else I need, I'll get when I'm there. That's the whole point of an adventure. Pack light and figure the rest out as you go.

Choosing to narrow reality into a single belief system, based solely on human experience, seems insane to me. And

Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, "What if the world was round?

He cut himself off and looked away, dragging a hand through his hair. "I just met her," he muttered to himself. "I'll no' say that ." "Cut the crap," Megan said. "Zachary Moore, this is Aura Salvatore, and yes, she's into science even though she's pretty. Shocker. Get over it." She turned to me. "Show him how you can walk and chew gum at the same time.

omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

First thing I do when I get in a library is - I go to the stacks and nose around. The idea is - you don't know what you're interested in. That's why it's possible to be surprised. So, instead of looking for things in particular, you look for what you didn't know you liked, and then when you find it you know that you liked it, and then you are a broader person than you were before.

As a rule, when we can't find even one good quality in a person, we are prejudiced, and by that rule I must admit my prejudice.

It is the laziness of mind to believe that what hasn't been , cannot be and will not be.

Ich war kein Lehrer, sondern ein Lerner. Ich wollte nicht lehren, sondern lernen. Ich hatte Lehrer werden wollen, um möglichst lange ein Schüler bleiben zu können. Ich wollte Neues, immer wieder Neues aufnehmen und um keinen Preis Altes, immer wieder Altes weitergeben. Ich war hungrig, ich war kein Bäcker. Ich war wissensdurstig, ich war kein Schankwirt.

I have tried to avoid moving against and negating any point of view, no matter how personally antipathetic to me, if it seems to have in it a core of truthfulness.

I don't know, I said. There isn't always an explanation for everything. Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. That's awfully nice.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

You should not judge; you should understand.

No me gustan los perros por ser perros, los caballos por ser caballos ni los gatos por ser gatos.