Quotes About Broad-mindedness

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,' he wrote. 'Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

My parents have been very broad-minded and let us do what we wanted.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.

And, till we came to Doncières, M. de Charlus, without any fear of shocking his audience, would speak sometimes in the plainest terms of morals which, he declared, for his own part he did not consider either good or evil. He did this from cunning, to shew his breadth of mind, convinced as he was that his own morals aroused no suspicion in the minds of the faithful.

Youth means to consistently maintain an open, flexible and tolerant mind.

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 superior man will not manifest either narrow-mindedness or the want of self-respect.

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.