Open Mindedness Quotes

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

There's a much bigger world out there.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.

The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, "I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot."

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.