Quotes About Broad Minded

#1. People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.

Art Buchwald

#2. I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.

Anne-Marie Duff

#3. As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

Dave Barry

#4. Helene and Mr. Bexley peel out again like Wacky Racers.

Sally Thorne

#5. In India, I'm always 'Aruna Roy's husband.'

Bunker Roy

#6. Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

Frederick Lenz

#7. what I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. I'm in love with my second cousin.

Bob Dylan

#9. I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.

Nelson Mandela

#10. Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Glen Duncan

#11. Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

Shawn Fanning

#12. Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.

Zicheng Hong

#13. I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.

Esha Gupta

#14. She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself for the object of his affections. But this at least she found exaggerated.

Ford Madox Ford

#15. When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Franklin P. Adams

#16. Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

Sade Adu

#18. War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Ellen Key

#19. The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

Sathya Sai Baba

#20. In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.

Ben Shapiro

#21. Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Will Rogers

#22. Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.
Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas, - this is the very struggle of progress.

Victor Hugo

#23. Contemplation + action = breakthrough

Lada Ray

#24. I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

Jock Sturges

#25. His spirits were too elastic to know the meaning of depression, and the setback had intriguing angles to it which he was broad-minded enough to appreciate as an artist.

Leslie Charteris

#26. I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

Laura Z. Hobson

#27. Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

Will Rogers

#28. I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

Frank Zappa

#29. The nobler type of man is broad-minded and not prejudiced. The inferior man is prejudiced and not broad-minded.

Confucius

#30. The way to maximize outcome is to focus on the process.

Seth Klarman

#31. Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's ... on morals.

Thomas Hardy

#33. You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

Cory Booker

#34. He was no prude, but he had those decent prejudices of which no self-respecting man can wholly rid himself, however broad-minded he may try to be.

P.G. Wodehouse

#35. Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.

G.K. Chesterton

#36. A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

Carlos Castaneda

#37. Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#38. This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

J.V. Cunningham

#39. Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development.

W.E.B. Du Bois