Quotes About Open-mindedness

Don't pressure your daughter or your son to conform to gender stereotypes. If your son wants to take ballet classes, cheer him on. If your daughter wants to study marshal arts and computer programming, sign her up. Teach your son that there are all kinds of man in the world including men who excel at ballet and macrame. Teach your daughter that there are all kinds of women in the world, including women who are masters of karate and computer programming.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

I can't believe THAT!' said Alice. 'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.' Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

No hay quien crea lo que es imposible. -A mi juicio es que te falta el hábito -dijo la Reina-. Cuando yo tenía tu edad, lo practicaba siempre media hora diaria. A veces, llegué incluso a creer en seis cosas imposibles antes del desayuno.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die

By definition, his job as an enigmalogist meant he needed to keep an open mind about anything, no matter how strange; his resistance, even skepticism, about the possibility of a phenomenon like lycanthropy was something he couldn't explain.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

The wise do not classify. The wise do not want to be classified. Classifying people is not classy.

The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

To hate someone just because he doesn't presume like you is big blunder.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.