Quotes About Broad-mindedness

Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

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

Simply, do not be narrow-minded.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

The trouble is I don't like the pop music which it's all right to like. You can have a bit of Pink Floyd shoved in between your symphonies and your Dame Janet Baker — that shows a refreshing breadth of taste or at least a refreshing candour.

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

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

I listen to all types of music.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way.

How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

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.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

If there's one thing I don't have, it's an insular bone.

I'm really open to everything.

I am a person always with an open mind.

I hope I never live to see the day when the miserable quibbling hair-splitters have won the earth, and there's no more black and white, but everything's just a dreary relative grey, and every one has a right to his own damned heresies, and it's more noble to be broad-minded about your disgusting neighbours than to push their faces in as a preliminary to yanking them back into the straight and narrow way .

His spirits were too elastic to know the meaning of depression, and the setback had intriguing angles to it which he was broad-minded enough to appreciate as an artist.