Quotes About Open-mindedness

I don't care what a man is. I mean, a great artist is like a great doctor. I don't care how racist he is. If he can show me how to operate on a heart so that I can cure a brother, or cure someone else, I don't give a damn what the man thinks; he has taught me something. And that is valuable to me. And that is valuable to others and man as a whole.

But when we reduce the conversation to simply passing judgment, we are left with no conversation at all.

I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand.

I don't believe in seeing evil in everything. I leave that to the inquisitors.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

The measure of our wisdom is much more about whether we embrace changing circumstances and accept people who are different from ourselves.

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're actually in a religious discussion, one more zealot arguing with another. Have I mentioned I'm not on Facebook?

Don't let our skepticism turn into cynicism. Not everyone with a crazy story is crazy.

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory.

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,' George Bernard Shaw wrote in 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'; 'the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Are you trying new ideas, new techniques, and new technologies, and I mean personally trying them, not just reading about them? Or are you waiting for others to figure out how they can re-engineer your workplace—and you out of that workplace?

I think one of the mistakes many of us (including myself) make when speaking with atheists, agnostics, or any person who does not share our faith is to believe that we can argue them into seeing the truth. I do not believe this is possible. I have never known anyone who was successfully argued into a true, lasting faith.

New things have to be tried. How do you know otherwise if something's good if you don't try it?

I'll hear you out." "Without interrupting with spiteful comments?" "That I can't promise." "Oh well"–Stregobor slipped his hands into the sleeves of his robe–"then it'll only take longer.

Don't be embarrassed," she said, throwing an armful of clothing on the hook. "I don't faint at the sight of a naked man. Triss Merigold, a friend, says if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

don't give no rabbit's fart what race or type of creature you are; if we'd been invaded by queer, tap-dancing dragons wearing top-hats and breathing cabbage fire, they'd still come here for their centre of command.

It is next to impossible to hear the voice of wisdom if we are not really listening for it to begin with. The best counsel in the world is wasted counsel if our minds are already made up.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be.

honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Oh, I'm interested in everything, Joe. That's why I'm a bloody brilliant detective.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.