Quotes About Open-mindedness

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that's being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won't approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We've no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

Terpelajar itu sudah harus adil semenjak dalam pikiran

Harus adil sejak dalam pikiran, jangan ikut-ikutan jadi hakim tentang perkara yang tidak diketahui benar-tidaknya.

It was not only from Europe that so much could be learned! This modern age had provided many breasts to suckle me - from among the Natives themselves, from Japan, China, America, India, Arabia, from all the peoples on the face of this earth... In humility, I realized I am a child of all nations, of all ages, past and present. Place and time of birth, parents, all are coincidence: such things are not sacred.

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

For that kind of leaders , nothing is alien or remote.

Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.

Our egos are often so hell-bent on getting our own ideas out that we can hardly wait for others to finish talking. What others are saying becomes a terrible interruption in what we are trying to say. In the process, we not only fail to understand what others are saying; we do not even hear them out. De Bono's description of parallel thinking aptly describes the kind of flow that is possible in a conversation where different ideas are allowed and encouraged:

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

As a member of Congress who represents one of the few true swing districts in the country, I have always tried to engage groups of people who don't necessarily agree with all my votes or opinions.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

It's always the gay people, the outliers, who are the cutting edge, and god bless these people! And to everyone else, wake up. See what's new!

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?