Quotes About Open-mindedness

No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

The intellectual advancement of man depends upon how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Credulity is not a virtue, and investigation is not a crime.

Make sure that slow learners are rewarded—or at least not punished— for expressing their deviant views and acting in odd ways.

Wise people "have the courage to act on their beliefs and convictions at the same time that they have the humility to realize that they might be wrong, and must be prepared to change their beliefs and actions when better information comes along.

Discuta como si tuviera razón, escuche como si estuviese equivocado».

As I wrote on the Harvard Business Review website in 2010, that's what wisdom means to organizational psychologist (and my intellectual hero) Karl Weick. Wise people "have the courage to act on their beliefs and convictions at the same time that they have the humility to realize that they might be wrong, and must be prepared to change their beliefs and actions when better information comes along.

Orthodoxy is a dam that is built by persons who think they have reached the ultimate in human thought, and that there will never be anything as good. They are finding that it is easier to become interested in the dam than in the great current that it is holding back. These

He rolled with the unexpected—and much was unexpected on Seeker trips—because he believed in "No matter what.

That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the sahibs of the Fogg forgive me for thinking it, this simple, curious outlook of healthy men is more important than some of the monuments themselves.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

He explained that once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. That struggle is a moment to moment decision to learn to open or close one's mind... Unfortunately, for many people school is the end, not the beginning.

A person can be utterly foolish and unknowing: as long as he knows the way to adapt, to be flexible, and how to move about, he still is not lost, but will come through life better perhaps than someone who is clever and stuffed with knowledge.

En la continua necesidad de goce y prueba de cosas siempre nuevas se me antoja un rasgo de pequeñez, falta de vida interior, alejamiento de la Naturaleza y mediana o defectuosa capacidad de comprensión. Es a los niños pequeños a los que siempre hay que mostrarles algo nuevo y distinto para que no estén descontentos.

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Hawkins sought out the freshest, most original musicians, and had little patience for those who would quibble over the difference between "modern" or "progressive," "swing" or "bebop." "I don't think about music as being new, or modern, or anything of the type," he mused. "Music doesn't go seasonable to me."44