Quotes About Open-mindedness

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

Non possiamo risolvere i problemi con lo stesso tipo di pensiero che abbiamo usato quando li abbiamo creati.

Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar...

Il est plus facile de désintégrer un atome qu'un préjugé

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

You can never be too smart to know everything. Everyday you learn new things through events that transpire daily in your life

Somebody who reads only 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. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

The world belongs to the people who are curious.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.

Peu d'être sont capables d'exprimer posément une opinion différente des préjugés de leur milieu. La plupart des êtres sont même incapables d'arriver à formuler une.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

New ideas are reasonable if they can be fitted into an already familiar scheme, unreasonable if they cannot be made to fit. Our intellectual prejudices determine the channels along which our reason shall flow.

To understand sympathetically, with one's whole beings, the state of mind of some one radically unlike oneself is very difficult—is, so far as I am concerned, impossible.

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

Directly a man begins to say Yes without the question Why? he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar.

But one of Stuart's most personable (and most annoying) qualities is his refusal to judge strangers until he knows them, especially if they're peculiar.