Quotes About Broadminded

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

there has sprung up a disturbing indifference to truth, and a tendency to regard the useful as the true, and the impractical as the false. The man who can make up his mind when proofs are presented to him is looked upon as a bigot, and the man who ignores proofs and the search for truth is looked upon as broadminded and tolerant.

Although he was a limited mathematician with no pretensions to scientific greatness, Crelle was a broadminded man, in fact a great man.

I think nuns are fun. I had a friend who was at a convent once, and really she said it was wizard and that the nuns were frightfully broadminded and allowed her to make up as much as she wanted to and have masses of boy friends call and take her out, but of course, she was Church of England really.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

I'm as broadminded as the next person, I hope, but at my age thirty miles an hour and actresses all in one day is rather too much of a good thing.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.