Open Mindedness Quotes

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

David Halberstam

One is not required to like a movie in order to learn from it. Our personal views provide a legitimate perspective, as long as we recognize and acknowledge how they may color our interpretation.

Richard Barsam

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

Henry David Thoreau

I'm too open minded that I don't know what to mind anymore.

Ahmed Mostafa

We can’t expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.

Frank Sonnenberg

No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.

Frank Sonnenberg

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

Adriano Bulla

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

Hyman G. Rickover

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

Patti Digh

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.

Criss Jami

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

Joyce Rachelle

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

John Yokoyama

Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.

Lauren Lola

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

Alan Alda

The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Shane Snow

Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.

Russell Kyle

If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn’t infringe on anyone’s freedom, it’s their choice to make.

Frank Sonnenberg

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.

David Halberstam

If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt.

Robert J. Braathe

1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?

Nyogen Senzaki

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creatingnew ideas.

Eraldo Banovac

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Jodi Picoult

Say 'Not Yet.' It's best to leave your options open.

Michele Jaffe

... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything that someone else says. But it is a false enlightenment to accept only those ideas that align with one's worldview and reject those that don't.

Ken Ilgunas

Just remember that in most things, right or wrong depends on where you’re standing at the moment. My father’s people would have thought having your life’s mate picked out for you by your parents to be … well, barbaric.” As Talon’s expression started to darken, Caleb added, “No offense intended, but I’m pointing out that things look the way they do because that is how you were taught as a child. And the rest of the world is vastly different from what a child can imagine.

Raymond E. Feist

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

Mark Batterson

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

Steven Johnson

Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.

Eraldo Banovac

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Edith Hamilton

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

Patti Digh

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

Deborah Day

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

John Stuart Mill

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

Ashly Lorenzana

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

A.J. Darkholme

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

Frithjof Schuon

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

George Eliot

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that he other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them.

David Foster Wallace

Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

Suzy Kassem

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn't consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for change.

Shannon L. Alder

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

Edna Ferber

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others.

Peter Santos

I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

Sherrie Eldridge

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

Unarine Ramaru

Whenever I hear people clucking about the decline of civilization, what's wrong with young people, how vulgar popular culture is, how confusing and frightening they find the internet, alarms go off. I know I'm around somebody whose hinges are rusting. Death will be bad enough, but for me, this early harbinger is more fearsome, because a part of one's spirit and openness and ability to learn and grow disappears.

Jon Katz

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

Mark Twain

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

Bryant McGill

People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either.

Vironika Tugaleva

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

Laurence Overmire

To reach the high notes in life, you must open your heart to sing.

Caron Kamps Widden

Let us not despise the woman who is neither mother nor daughter nor wife. Let us not limit our esteem to family life, narrow our tolerance to simple egotism. Given that heaven rejoices more at the repentance of one sinner than over a hundred good men who have never sinned, let us endeavor to make heaven rejoice. We may be rewarded with interest. Let us leave along the path the alms of our forgiveness for those whose earthly desires have marooned them, so that a divine hope may save them, and, as the wise old women say when they prescribe a remedy of their own invention, if it doesn't help, at least it can't hurt.

Alexandre Dumas fils

The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as part of their education, is to have some idea they hold to be true, and at the very basis of their being, proved to be wrong.Because that opens your mind to the realization that the world is different than you thought it would be, and you have to begin to open your mind to the possibilities of existence.And opening your mind frees you, it doesn't constrain you. It makes the world more wonderful, more exciting, and more worth living in.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter.

Unarine Ramaru

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

John Piper

People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see the point of why God had you hang in there with them for so long. Remember this: Sometimes meeting someone has nothing to do with what you can provide for him or her and everything to do with what God needs you to recognize in that person. If you didn’t understand the message, God will keep sending the same person or situation into your life.

Shannon L. Alder

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

Eric Hirzel

We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?

Unarine Ramaru

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