Quotes About Broad-mindedness

Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in order to focus only on their goal. Others have a giant lens, and they take in the whole panorama. I was that pinhole kind of person.

for the adage was: 'I fear the man of one book.' Trying

we should look beyond our noses;

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Have you ever noticed that? We base our assessment of the intelligence of others almost entirely on how closely their thinking matches our own. I'm sure that there are people out there who violently disagree with me on most things, and I'm broad-minded enough to conceded that they might possibly not be completely idiots, but I much prefer the company of people who agree with me. You might want to think about that.

In a world of diversity, and cultural differences... there's no such thing as 'common' sense.

Moreover, Ray prided himself upon that confusion of standards which is called broad-mindedness.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much.

Miss Speedwell, I am delighted to find my assessment of your liberal thinking is accurate. To meet a lady of such broad-mindedness is rare indeed. Stoker, if you don't marry Miss Speedwell, I might.

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Wherever you are , some will want to ask questions about your skin or your prayers. Beware of gratifying their instincts, my son, beware of bending before the multitude! Muslim, Jew or Christian, they must take you as you are, or lose you. When men's minds seem narrow to you, tell yourself that the land of God is broad; broad His hands and broad His heart. Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.' (p.360)

My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded.

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I've always been interested in many different things.

With time, I've learnt that personal likes or dislikes don't count a lot.

Burr is said to have remarked, "Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.