Open-mindedness Quotes

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings wh...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th...

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other...

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

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

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

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

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

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one...

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its natur...

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling...

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...

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

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

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

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

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

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

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the w...

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost ...

The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as par...

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...

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

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The chi...

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to i...

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and di...

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections ma...

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep...