Quotes About Open-mindedness

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Martin Luther: "He who believes his doctrine to be perfectly right and true has only to lift his hands and touch his ears and discover they are the long furry ears of a donkey.

A truly effective leader, however, must be able to see the shades of gray inherent in a situation in order to make wise decisions as to how to proceed. The essence of thinking gray is this: don't form an opinion about an important matter until you've heard all the relevant facts.

If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.

when we challenge our assumptions about the world—or even more important, when we realize we're making an assumption that we didn't even know we were making—we may or may not change our views. But even if we don't, the exercise of challenging them should at least force us to notice our own stubbornness, which in turn should give us pause.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

My life has taught me to be more curious than afraid.

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.