Quotes About Open-mindedness

A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions.

However, just like this cup, you seem to be full of your own ideas. And how can any more go in . . . until you first empty your cup?

Arthur Schopenhauer: «Todo el mundo toma los límites de su propia visión para hallar los límites de mundo. Unos pocos no. Únete a ellos».

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote, 'Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.

Would you really want to live in a world where everyone looked, acted and thought exactly as you do?

Sin embargo, igual que esta taza, tú pareces estar lleno de ideas propias. ¿Cómo van a entrar más, si no vacías primero tu taza?

Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.

According to the Buddhist tradition," he began, "there is no sort of conversion or missionary work. It is not good to ask someone to follow a different faith. Yet, because there are so many different mental dispositions, one religion simply cannot serve, cannot satisfy all people.

When you're doing all you can and "what more?" seems an impossible task, try thinking differently, step outside your box, and open your mind to solutions that were there all the time. Solutions you just couldn't see. Act

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Vagabonding is an attitude—a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word. Vagabonding is not a lifestyle, nor is it a trend. It's just an uncommon way of looking at life—a value adjustment from which action naturally follows. And, as much as anything, vagabonding is about time—our only real commodity—and how we choose to use it.

those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.

Throughout his career, he operated in the realm of the possible, taking the world as it was, not as he wished it to be, and he often inveighed against a dogmatic insistence upon perfection.

We're all atheists. You don't believe in Zeus or Thor or Neptune or Augustus Caesar or Mars or Venus or Sun Ra. You reject a thousand gods. Why should it bother you if someone else rejects a thousand and one?

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Robert Frost wrote in 1914, "Why abandon a belief / Merely because it ceases to be true.

along with our responses to them, determine

Yes, as distasteful as it is, it is beneficial to talk to people who disagree with us. So if you hate conspiracy theories and run into someone who believes that we faked the moonlanding and Einstein plagiarized relativity from his mailman, don't tell him, 'You life is a cruel joke' and walk away. Have tea with him. It can broaden your style of thinking, and it's cheaper than seeing a therapist.

the elasticity of our thinking allows us to move beyond the existing world of our senses and invent new concepts.