Top 100 Quotes About Open Mindedness
#1. The arts world prides itself on its diversity, inclusivity, open-mindedness and constant efforts to reach out to all. Yet at the very moment when Britain decides its future, hardly anyone in the arts seems to understand, let alone agree with, the opinion of at least half the population.
Richard Morrison
#2. A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.
April Mae Monterrosa
#3. For the New Age community, 'ancient' knowledge is always considered unimpeachable and unimprovable, just as a diverse range of beliefs from Eastern mysticism to UFOs, energy dowsing to cryptozoology, are - though mutually contradictory - unquestionably accepted in the name of open-mindedness.
Mark Crutchfield
#4. 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
#5. Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your portals to joy
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#6. No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.
Katherine Rundell
#7. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
#8. Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.
David Halberstam
#11. Don't limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise
Sunday Adelaja
#12. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.
Criss Jami
#14. Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.
A.J. Darkholme
#15. What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?
Joyce Rachelle
#16. The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.
Edith Hamilton
#17. When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.
Adriano Bulla
#18. Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.
C. JoyBell C.
#19. Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
Gordon W. Allport
#20. I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.
Sheri S. Tepper
#21. Books and minds only work when they're open.
James Dewar
#22. If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
Bryant McGill
#23. So often I speak of "out of the box thinking" and living a "conscious life"; however, not regularly do I meet someone who lives such a life. What an inspiration (and challenge) to see someone who really lives in the now, who looks forward and dares to stop when thoughts turn to pain from the past!
Paula Heller Garland
#24. No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.
Peter Hoeg
#25. The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right
Atle Selberg
#26. It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
George Eliot
#27. Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people.
Joe Biden
#28. Even with my freewheeling open-mindedness, I couldn't fancy Dennis - a man whose ears looked like two long pieces of bacon.
Caitlin Moran
#29. One's opinion should only be as strong as one's knowledge on the matter.
Eric Hirzel
#30. In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
Vinod Khosla
#32. We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
Bryant McGill
#33. The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.
Eric Hirzel
#34. Narrow-mindedness will only get you as far as Nowhere, and once you're there, you're lost forever.
Tahereh Mafi
#35. 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
#36. Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#37. Etermination is the most important quality in a founder, open-mindedness and willingness to change your idea are key, and all startups face rejection at first.
Jessica Livingston
#38. Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.
Eric Hirzel
#39. People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.
Pattie Boyd
#40. LSD wanted to tell me something ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.
Albert Hofmann
#41. That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.
Edna Ferber
#42. An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
Peter Kreeft
#43. Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.
Eraldo Banovac
#45. I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.
Eric Ludy
#46. What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.
Patti Digh
#47. Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling
Deborah Day
#48. The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments.
Samuel Alito
#49. Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality
Paul Isaacs
#50. 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
#51. We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.
Baltasar Gracian
#52. People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either.
Vironika Tugaleva
#53. Humility and open-mindedness are a shield to keep your foot out of your mouth.
Laura Gilfillan
#54. We can't expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.
Frank Sonnenberg
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#58. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them.
Kelley Armstrong
#59. Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.
Deborah Day
#60. Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead
#61. Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.
Shane Snow
#62. No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.
Frank Sonnenberg
#64. I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case that came before me; he insisted on scrupulously following precedents.
Samuel Alito
#65. Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.
R. Scott Bakker
#66. People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
Philip Pullman
#67. I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.
An Na
#69. It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.
Milan Kundera
#70. To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.
Heraclitus
#71. 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
#72. To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward thinking world. To her, their faces bore the costume of the ignorant, and they were poster children for gross close-mindedness in an open-minded, ever changing world
Umm Zakiyyah
#73. Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Salman Rushdie
#74. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
Napoleon Hill
#76. There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.
Napoleon Hill
#77. Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda
#78. 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
#79. A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa
#80. A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)
Hiromu Arakawa
#81. All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
Ezra Koenig
#82. Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Jodi Picoult
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. The greatest potential we have for opening our hearts lies in the opening of our minds.
Vironika Tugaleva
#86. But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
Charles Darwin
#88. The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.
Robert J. Allison
#89. But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right?
Johnny Rich
#90. Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.
Julia Cameron
#92. Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
Laurence Overmire
#93. The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson
#94. A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.
Zack W. Van
#95. I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Christopher Hitchens
#96. Foretold through memories I remember what dangers I was warned of if lived by ways of sinning. That by living a fruitful life with an open mind to love all people would bring me to a place of peaceful tranquility. I wonder if these are all lies. All of them.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#97. 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
#99. Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.
Patti Digh
#100. The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
John Piper
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