#Open Mindedness Quotes

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

“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. 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.”

“Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were 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.”

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

“I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There's a much bigger world out there.”

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”

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

“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”

“Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.”

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

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