Quotes About Open-mindedness

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.

Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

If a religious book makes you harbor ill thoughts about those with differing faith, then, you're reading the wrong crap of late.

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.

An imaginative person can be spiritual but can't be religious.

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

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 opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.