Mindedness Quotes

85 quotes by 74 authors

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness. — Ezra Koenig
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,… — Vinod Khosla
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just — Michela Wrong
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures… — Vance Packard
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction,… — Abdallah II
Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than… — Saint Basil
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… — Criss Jami
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.' — Criss Jami
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow
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
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… — Margaret Mead
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. — Salman Rushdie
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control… — Haile Selassie
I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so… — Callum Keith Rennie
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men… — Mark Twain
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and… — Brennan Manning
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… — Philip Pullman
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure… — John Ashbery

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